Training Impact on Patient Care Knowledge Item 03: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Training Impact: Patient Care-03
Relationship Between Trainee Characteristics and Reported Changes in Patient Care Post-Training

In a cross-cutting telephone study of 218 service providers who were interviewed an average of eight months after an HIV/AIDS training, patient care changes were observed. Trainee background characteristics (e.g., trainee age, gender, job characteristics), controlling for project site, predicted whether or not a specific example of patient care change was provided for each area assessed by the interview.

Direct service providers were more likely to have provided a concrete example of patient care change when asked whether the training affected how they treat patients, how they educate patients/families, and how they make referrals. Program administrators, on the other hand, were more likely to have provided a patient care change example when asked about how the training affected the overall level of the care in the system (e.g., in establishing collaborations, creating educational opportunities, and providing care at the broad level). This differentiation also provides support for the the validity of the evaluation design.

Note: A related set of Knowledge Items assess how the training affected the health care systems at the agencies of the individuals trained.

The coding of patient care change was done by Bernadette Lalonde, Ph.D., and Karina Uldall, M.D., of the University of Washington using open-ended responses to questions in the training follow up semi-structured interview conducted by The Measurement Group.

Knowledge Item Citation: Huba, G. J., Panter, A. T., Melchior, L. A., and the HRSA/HAB SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1998-2001). Knowledge Item: CA-Training Impact: Patient Care-03 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 June 1999.

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.