Doubled-Up Households, Self-Management Behaviors, Diabetes Preventive Care Services, and Hospital Use in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) 2015–2020
Authors' conclusion
Health care settings where Hispanic/Latino adults with diabetes receive trusted care should add housing characteristics such as doubled-up status to social-needs screening to identify residents in need of connecting with housing or social services and more targeted diabetes management services.
Study context
- Population
- Hispanic/Latino adults with diabetes in HCHS/SOL; second clinical visit (2014–2017) through annual follow-up interviews to January 2020
- Exposure
- Living in a doubled-up household vs not
- Outcome
- Diabetes self-management behaviors, diabetes preventive care services, hospital use
Methodological detailsmultivariable regression
- Multivariable regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Doubled up less likely to have urine checked by a doctor for kidney disease vs not doubled up
- Doubled-up status not associated with diabetes self-management behaviors
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
ED visits, doubled up with other related adults vs doubled up with adult children
- Increased risk of ED visits with other related adults vs adult children
- 33%
Original publication
Doubled-Up Households, Self-Management Behaviors, Diabetes Preventive Care Services, and Hospital Use in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) 2015–2020. Diabetes Care. Published 14 December 2022. doi:10.
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