Use of Hospital-Based Food Pantries Among Low-Income Urban Cancer Patients
Use of Hospital-Based Food Pantries Among Low-Income Urban Cancer Patients
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DOI：
10.1007/s10900-015-0048-7
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发表时间：
2015-12-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Leng, Jennifer C. F.
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作者：
Gany, Francesca;Lee, Trevor;Leng, Jennifer C. F.
研究纽约市五家癌症诊所、医院食品储藏室对新型紧急食品系统的使用情况，以及低收入城市癌症患者使用的预测因素。这是一项对351名患者进行的巢式队列研究，这些患者在2011年10月3日至2013年1月1日期间首次访问食品储藏室。主要成果是继续采用这种食品储藏室干预措施。广义估计方程（GEE）的统计分析进行模型的茶水间访问频率的预测。患者首次访视后4个月内回访次数的中位数为2次，平均值为3.25次（SD 3.07）。GEE模型显示，年轻患者较少使用餐具室，移民患者更多使用餐具室（比美国出生的），前列腺癌和IV期癌症患者更多使用餐具室。未来需要进行更大规模的长期研究，以进一步评估食物援助计划的利用率以及对营养结果、癌症结果、合并症和生活质量的影响。最有风险的癌症患者应特别考虑。
To examine uptake of a novel emergency food system at five cancer clinics in New York City, hospital-based food pantries, and predictors of use, among low-income urban cancer patients. This is a nested cohort study of 351 patients who first visited the food pantries between October 3, 2011 and January 1, 2013. The main outcome was continued uptake of this food pantry intervention. Generalized estimating equation (GEE) statistical analysis was conducted to model predictors of pantry visit frequency. The median number of return visits in the 4 month period after a patient's initial visit was 2 and the mean was 3.25 (SD 3.07). The GEE model showed that younger patients used the pantry less, immigrant patients used the pantry more (than US-born), and prostate cancer and Stage IV cancer patients used the pantry more. Future long-term larger scale studies are needed to further assess the utilization, as well as the impact of food assistance programs such as the this one, on nutritional outcomes, cancer outcomes, comorbidities, and quality of life. Cancer patients most at risk should be taken into particular consideration.