Impact & Outcomes

We evaluate our program rigorously in partnership with UCSF and Stanford research teams.

We're driven by data as a part of our commitment to health equity.

We track outcomes to better understand the changes our participants undergo. But even more meaningfully, we track outcomes to revolutionize the standard of care in medicine, a change which has to be data-driven. This commitment is fueled by our drive to make this transformative work accessible to everyone.

We partner with UCSF and Stanford to measure exercise, diet, depression and more, along with Emergency Department visits, biomarkers, and primary care utilization. All of our data come from patients at low-income clinics, who have varied health challenges including diabetes, heart disease, depression, chronic pain, as well as significant socio-economic barriers to health.

Our patient outcomes speak for themselves

Outcomes measures are collected from participants at baseline and each month thereafter. These are analyzed with mixed linear models to make use of the longitudinal nature of the data, to address missing data, and to account for individual variability.

ER Visits Results Graphs
ED Visits/Hospitalizations
77% Reduction in Emergency Dept Visits
ED visits/Hospitalizations in 6 months prior to attending group and 6 months following group, p = .14, n = 49.
Blood pressure results graph
Blood Pressure
19pt Reduction in BP
Systolic Blood Pressure p < .001, Diastolic BP p < .05, n = 85 from a subset of hypertensive patients.
Anxiety, Depression, and Loneliness stats
Mental Health
43% Decrease in Depression, 41% Decrease in Anxiety
All p’s < .001; Mental Health outcomes are measured with PHQ-9 (n = 244), GAD-7 (n = 142), and UCLA 3-item. Loneliness Scale (n = 241), from a subsample of depressed patients.
Exercise Graph
Physical Activity
51% Increase in weekly physical activity
All p’s < .001, exercise measured with Exercise as a Vital Sign (n = 755).
Daily Fruits and Vegetable results
Daily Servings Fruits & Vegs
26% Increase in fruit/veg intake
Diet measured with 2-Item Fruit and Vegetable intake (n = 744).
Connection Measurements and Results graphs
Connection
Increase in Social Connection
Connection measured with the Social Connectedness Scale – Revised (SCS-R, n = 320, p < .01).
Wellbeing Results
Wellbeing
Increase in Wellbeing
Wellbeing measured with the World Health Organization 5-item Wellbeing Index (WHO-5, n = 617, p < .001).

Hear from our participants directly

We're proud of our impact

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Testimonials

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Anonymous
OSW Participant
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center
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“Muchas cosas; créame que son muchas cosas. Yo me catalogo como una mujer muy apartada...como muy cerrada a mí misma….Y esto me ha cambiado muchas perspectivas, mi forma de pensar, y mi forma de sentir. La meditación me ayuda mucho...y pues créeme que esto sí me ha ayudado mucho, mucho, mucho.”
Anonymous
OSW Participant
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center
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"Nos escuchan y nos dan sus puntos de vista, si es que en algún momento nos equivocamos o nos expresamos mal, pero es algo bonito. Es algo que no había sentido, a mis 52 años, se puede decir que en grupos así, no, nunca había estado.”
Anonymous
OSW Participant
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“What has changed for me? Some of my lifestyle changes have been a result of participating in the class, just by trying to make different, healthy lifestyle choices. As far as drinking water more on a regular basis, eating breakfast on a regular basis, cutting out excess sugars in my diet, trying to incorporate more fruits or vegetables, more activity, and like more just, just trying to have a better, mental outlook, healthy outlook on things which I think has been going well.”
Anonymous
OSW Participant
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“One thing, I got to learn about like Zoom and how you Zoom, so that was good. To the social aspect, getting to connect with other people in the community. I very much enjoy like how the groups, the group is broken down in different components during the timeframe of the group, like the meditation, the nutritional information, SFS portion, your small core group, you know the first, especially when it starts, and we're all together.”
Anonymous
OSW Participant
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“I got to meet with the doctor and a nutritionist every week, which at first felt very uncomfortable, kind of felt, it felt uncomfortable at first, but after a few sessions, I'm talking with the doctor, I'm talking with the nutritionist, I started to enjoy it because I started to feel like, Oh, wow, they're really like, they're really on my health. They're really monitoring me closely.”

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