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Characteristics
01: Major
Demographic Categories
Final.
Approximately 5,000 men and women with
HIV/AIDS have been served by the 27 Cooperative Agreement Projects
developing innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. The clients are very
diverse in terms of their demographic characteristics and behaviors.
The patients are drawn from underserved and vulnerable populations.
This Knowledge Item presents information on the demographic
characteristics of the clients.
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Characteristics
02: Financial Resources and Needs for Public Support of Medical
Services
Final.
Virtually all of the patients served in the
Cooperative Agreement Projects are dependent upon public support for
their medical services and living expenses. Only 13% are employed. The
Knowledge Item presents information about the financial resources of
the patients.
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Characteristics
03: Levels of Risk Behaviors and
Gender Differences
Final.
At the time of enrollment, the behaviors and
demographics of the patients served in the Cooperative Agreement Projects makes them vulnerable to stress, re-infection, lack of
retention in services, and failure to adhere to treatment
recommendations. This Knowledge Item presents information about the
levels of risk behaviors and contrasts the levels for men and women.
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Characteristics
04: Dimensions of Risk Behaviors
Final.
The vulnerable clients of these programs can
be categorized using a few dimensions, primarily related to continuing
sexual behaviors that put them at risk for re-infection and substance
abuse behaviors. This Knowledge Item examines the major dimensions
that explain the different risk behaviors.
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Characteristics
05: Typology of Clients Based on Risk
Behaviors
Final.
The behavioral and demographic characteristics
of the patients allow them to be categorized in terms of a few modal
patterns. These modal patterns are later studied in terms of program
outcomes. This Knowledge Item presents a typology of clients using
their risk behaviors as the basis for clustering.
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Characteristics
06: Demographics and Behaviors of
Pregnant Women
Final.
Several hundred pregnant women with HIV/AIDS
have been served by these projects. This Knowledge Item shows the
demographics and behavioral profiles of the pregnant women with HIV
served by these projects.
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Characteristics
07: Contrast of Pregnant Women to
Other Female Clients
Final.
While the pregnant women with HIV/AIDS participating
in these programs are high-need and vulnerable women, their overall
profiles of service need [with the exception of those needs directly
related to their pregnancy] and continuing risk behaviors are about
comparable to those of the women served who were not pregnant. This
Knowledge Item presents contrasts of the demographics and risk
behaviors of pregnant women with HIV to those of women with HIV who
are not pregnant.
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Characteristics
08: High Need Populations Enrolled in Services
Final.
The projects represented here have served
high need populations who tend not to have to be insured, to be
persons of color, to not speak English as their primary language, to
have less than a High School education, to use various drugs (heroin,
crack cocaine, alcohol), to have young children that must be cared for
while the parent is undergoing treatment, and to have unstable
housing. Portions of this Knowledge Base specifically address how to
engage such people in care and keep them in care while maximizing
outcomes.
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Characteristics
09: Indicators of Service Needs and
Vulnerabilities for Male and Female Clients of Differing Ethnic-Racial
Backgrounds
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for males and females of the
major ethnic-racial groups served by these projects.
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Characteristics
10: Characteristics of Clients in Medical and Psychosocial Programs
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for males and females in
projects characterized as medical or psychosocial in their focus.
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Characteristics
11: Behaviors of Clients in Medical and Psychosocial Programs
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of lifetime behavior patterns related to the use of
services and the transmission of HIV.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for males and females in
projects characterized as medical or psychosocial in their focus.
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Characteristics
12: Models of the Needs-Vulnerabilities of Clients in Medical and Psychosocial
Programs
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability. A
model is shown relating patterns of these needs and vulnerabilities to
whether the client has been recruited into a medical or psychosocial
support program.
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Characteristics
13: Profile of African-American Clients
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for African-American/Black males and females
with HIV/AIDS.
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Characteristics
14: Profile of Hispanic Clients
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for Hispanic/Latino-a males and females
with HIV/AIDS.
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Characteristics
15: Profile of Clients from Small Ethnic-Racial Groups
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for males and females of
Asian-Pacific Islander, Native American, or "Other" ethnic-racial groups
with HIV/AIDS. These groups have been combined together here for
analytic purposes because the number of such individuals served by these
projects is very small, and in order to have meaningful statistical
summaries it is necessary to combine the data from the three groups.
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Characteristics
16: Profile of Women of Color
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for females from
communities of color (African-American, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific
Islander, Native American, "Other").
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Characteristics
17: Profiles of Clients from Individual Projects
Final.
This Knowledge Item shows selected
characteristics of the client populations from the projects contributing
to this dataset.
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Characteristics
18: Profile of Substance Abusers
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for male and female
substance abusers with HIV/AIDS.
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Characteristics
19: Sub-groupings of High-need Populations Enrolled in Services
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability. Sub-groups
of these HIV/AIDS patients are delineated based on their overall service
needs and vulnerabilities.
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Characteristics
20: Scaling Service Needs and Vulnerabilities
Final.
This Knowledge Item studies
the relationships among the needs and vulnerabilities variables and
presents an overall set of scaling analyses to determine the two major
abstract constructs that describe these 14 indices.
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Characteristics
21: Relationship of Service Needs and Vulnerabilities to One Another
Final.
This Knowledge Item presents
models of the relationship of each service need-vulnerability to the
other 13 service needs and vulnerabilities.
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Characteristics 22: Models of the Needs
and Vulnerabilities of Gay and Lesbian HIV/AIDS Patients
Final.
This Knowledge Item looks at models that
contrast the services needs and vulnerabilities of gay and lesbian
HIV/AIDS patients with those of bisexual and heterosexual patients. In
virtually all cases the needs for extended services are the same for all
groups. There is some tendency for heterosexual clients to enter through
community-based organizations while gay males, in particular, enter
service through medical programs.
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Characteristics
23: Profile of Haitian Participants
Final.
This Knowledge Item characterizes the service population
in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability and 20
behavioral tendencies.
Levels of these characteristics are shown for African-American/Black males and females
with HIV/AIDS who were identified in the enrollment forms as being of
Haitian origin.
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Characteristics
24: Profile of Patients by Age Group
Final.
This Knowledge Item shows the age distribution of
the individuals served and the relationship of age group to other needs
and service vulnerabilities.
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Characteristics
25: Relationship of Total Needs and Vulnerability to Individual Need
and Vulnerability Indicators
Final.
This Knowledge Item shows the
estimated probability of having each of 15 individual needs and
vulnerabilities as a function of the Total Needs and Vulnerability Index
developed as a sum of these indicators. The analyses shown are a form of
psychometric analysis of the total index.
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Characteristics
26: Relationship of Behaviors to Gender and Site Type
Final.
This Knowledge Item archives the
distribution of other indicators of patient behavior and potential
service need by site type and gender. The behaviors presented here are
highly correlated with the core set of service needs and
vulnerabilities studied throughout this Knowledge Base.
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Characteristics
27:
Relationship of Additional Behavioral Indicators to the Core Set
of Needs and Vulnerabilities
Final.
This Knowledge Item studies the
relationship of a set of nine supplemental behavioral indicators
(including cigarette smoking, needle sharing, sexual practices,
injection drug use) to the set of demographic and need-vulnerability
factors studied repeatedly in this Knowledge Base.
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Characteristics 28: Profile of Hispanic Clients: II. Subgroups
Final.
This Knowledge Item
amplifies Knowledge Item:
CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-14 by comparing subgroups of Hispanic clients compared in terms of
their other demographic characteristics, service needs, and
vulnerabilities.
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Characteristics 99:
Major Needs and Vulnerabilities of Patients at Individual Projects
Final.
This Knowledge Item presents
the characteristics of the service population at each project in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability.
