Client-Patient Characteristics Knowledge Item 19: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-19
Sub-groupings of High Need Populations Enrolled in Services

HRSA/HAB's SPNS funded 17 HIV service models to find underserved individuals and provide appropriate, effective services. Demographic and HIV-risk factor data were collected at enrollment. From these variables, items have been identified that are indicators of underserved or marginalized groups including service access, understanding services, and problem behaviors for retention.

This Knowledge Item shows the key ways of differentiating the sample in terms of total service needs and vulnerabilities. The Knowledge Item is an amplification of the basic finding of Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-08, in which it was shown that program participants have an average of about 7 (of 15) service needs and vulnerabilities.

Clients of these programs may be characterized as facing, on the average, between five and six traditional barriers to services. Subgroups of the participants are developed that differ in the total number of service needs they face.

The following diagram shows the gender difference for the projects (in the right cluster) that serve both men and women. The projects in the left cluster serve only women.

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Knowledge Item Citation: Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., Panter, A. T., and the HRSA/HAB SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1998-2001). Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-19 from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements on Innovative Models of Care, The Measurement Group Knowledge Base on HIV/AIDS Care, Online at www.TheMeasurementGroup.com.

Last Updated: March 25, 2005; data through June 15, 1999; analyses conducted January and March - May 2000.

Knowledge Base Citation: The Knowledge Base and this Knowledge Item were designed and authored by G. J. Huba, Ph.D.; in collaboration with Lisa A. Melchior, Ph.D.; A. T. Panter, Ph.D.; and the staff of The Measurement Group. Cite this work as "Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., and Panter, A. T. (1998 - 2001). The Measurement Group Knowledge Base on HIV/AIDS Care. On the World Wide Web: http://www.TheMeasurementGroup.com."

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Collaborators from Participating Projects: Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee 1999.

Participating Projects: This Knowledge Base is based on the service delivery experiences of 27 Cooperative Agreement Projects on Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care. These projects and the Evaluation and Dissemination Center which produced this Knowledge Base were funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) as Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) between 1994 and 1999. Click the Model Programs button above for descriptions of the projects that contributed to this specific Knowledge Item, a list of key staff, and project grant numbers.

Why This Evaluation was Conducted: Editorial.

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Work on the Knowledge Base and the cross-cutting evaluation was supported in part by Grant Number 5 U90 HA 00030-05 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau's (HAB) Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). The contents of this Knowledge Base are solely the responsibility of The Measurement Group and do not necessarily represent the official views of HRSA or HRSA/HAB's Special Projects of National Significance nor may they represent the positions of the individual grantees whose projects are included in the cross-cutting evaluation.