Impact of Food Assistance on Treatment Adherence and Clinical Outcomes in Food-Insecure Cancer Pts

Percent of participants that self-report of treatment completion

Using the Food Insecurity Assessment: a 2 Question Hunger Vital Signs will be used to assess patient food insecurity status with the following two questions:

"Within the past 12 months, did you worry your food would run out before you got the money to buy more?" "Within the past 12 months, did the food you buy not last and you didn't have money to get more?"

Scoring will categorize patients as never true, sometimes true, or often true. Baseline is defined as when a patient responds SOMETIMES TRUE or OFTEN TRUE to one of the two validated Hunger Vital Sign Screening questions for the first time. Patients will receive an email about the financial impact and QOL validated surveys at each time interval.

The EORTC QLQ-30 questionnaire is a 30-item, patient-reported instrument designed to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL), functional status, and symptom burden of cancer patients. Comprises 30 questions grouped into 5 functional scales, 9 symptom scales/items, and a global health status.

Scoring: Uses a 4-point Likert scale (7-point for global items), transformed to a 0-100 scale. Higher scores indicate better function/QoL, but worse symptom burden.

The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy for measure of financial toxicity (FACIT-COST) questionnaire to assess the impact of treatment on patient financial status. This measure has 12 questions based on patient reported outcomes to assess financial quality of life stress; numeric responses 0-4; Uses a score range 0-44 with higher scores indicating better Financial Well-Being.