A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the Effects of a Social Needs Navigation Intervention on Health Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization among Medicaid Members with Type 2 Diabetes.

Health systems are increasingly assessing and addressing social needs with referrals to community resources. The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to randomize adult Medicaid members with type 2 diabetes to receive usual care ( = 239) or social needs navigation ( = 234) for 6 months and compare HbA1c (primary outcome), quality of life (secondary outcome), and other exploratory outcomes with -tests and mixed-effects regression. Eligible participants had an HbA1c test in claims in the past 120 days and reported 1+ social needs.

What Do Medicaid Members Want From Their Health Plan?: Insights From a Qualitative Study to Improve Engagement in Case Management.

Purpose Of Study: Managed care organizations (MCOs) provide case management services to address unmet health and social needs among their members. Few studies have examined factors influencing members' decision to participate in these programs. The purpose of the present study was to describe the life circumstances of Medicaid members offered case management, what they wanted from their MCO, and their perceptions of case management and barriers to participation.

Describing the Lived Experience and Resource Needs of Individuals With Long COVID.

Individuals with long COVID report diverse symptoms lasting weeks or months after initial infection, causing significant psychosocial distress. Navigating health care interactions are often difficult for these individuals due to the diffuse nature of their symptoms, a lack of effective treatment options, and skepticism from some providers. To better understand these challenges, this study sought to further describe the lived experience of individuals with long COVID.

Diabetes distress in a Medicaid sample: The role of psychosocial and health-related factors.

Aims: Diabetes-related distress can negatively affect disease management leading to worse complications, especially among marginalized populations. Prior studies mostly focus on distress' impact on diabetes outcomes, with few examining distress predictors. The current study examined the impact of social needs on distress on its own and after controlling for other socio-demographic, psychosocial, and health factors.

Word length negatively predicts recognition memory performance.

We examined how word length affects performance in three recognition memory experiments to resolve discrepant results in the literature for which there are theoretical implications. Shorter and longer words were equated on frequency, orthographic similarity, age of acquisition, and imageability. In Experiments 1 and 2, orthographic length (i.

Incidental memory for colour word associates processed in colour naming and reading aloud tasks: is a blue more memorable than a yellow one?

Congruency effects for colour word associates (e.g., ) have been reported in Stroop colour naming tasks.