Assessing Social Determinants of Health to Increase Cancer Screening

Unite Us is an electronic SDoH screening and referral tool assessing: (1) financial resource strain; (2) housing stability; (3) transportation needs; and (4) food insecurity. Upon completion, the Unite Us platform identifies a list of geographically-tailored resources to connect the individual in need. A staff member will administer the SDoH screening and referral tool, review the results with the participant, and use the geographically-tailored resources to make SDoH-related referrals.

The current practice during community events is to offer LungTalk. LungTalk is a novel theoretically grounded health educational tool that will be delivered via iPad and is an interactive computer-based program that includes audio, video and animation segments with scripts presented from a master content library in consideration of different ways people like to learn. Informed by our prior research, LungTalk tailors its content based on smoking status and perceived barriers. In prior work, LungTalk more than doubled LCS knowledge and health beliefs (p \< 0.01), and was associated with a significant increase in deciding to screen for lung cancer compared to control group; OR 1.99; 95% Confidence Interval (CI), 1.03, 3.85, p = 0.03.