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Eliaz A, Blair AH, Chen YH, Fernandez A, Ernst A, Mirjahangir J, Celentano J, Sachdev D, Enanoria W, Reid MJA. Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022; 9:ofab612. [PMID: 34993261 PMCID: PMC8717891 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
We evaluated the impact of language concordance—clinician or public health worker fluency in a patient’s primary language—on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contact tracing outcomes among 2668 Spanish-speaking adults in San Francisco. Language concordance was associated with 20% greater odds of COVID-19 testing and 53% greater odds of support service referrals.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amity Eliaz
- School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Alden H Blair
- Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Yea-Hung Chen
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Alicia Fernandez
- School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Alexandra Ernst
- Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Joy Mirjahangir
- Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Jessica Celentano
- Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Darpun Sachdev
- San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Wayne Enanoria
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Michael J A Reid
- School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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