Achievements & Lessons Learned-V: University of Washington Center for AIDS and STDs

Knowledge Item: CA-Initiative Impact-99V
Major Achievements and Lessons Learned: 1994-1999

University of Washington Center for STDs and AIDS

The University of Washington project has increased knowledge of HIV-related neuropsychiatric disorders, especially delirium, through training educational videos, and study guides.

In 1999, the Evaluation and Dissemination Center asked each project to state its major achievements and the lessons it had learned from conducting the project. Those stated achievements and lessons learned are reproduced here (with minor editing) as reported to the Evaluation and Dissemination Center. The summary statements given here are those aspects of the program's experiences that the Project Director wished to emphasize.

Achievement 1: Publications.
Key Elements for Success: a) Perseverance. b) Designating a lead author. c) Publication meetings.	Factors that Limited Success: Time.	Factors that Ensured Success: a) Monthly publication meetings. b) Team commitment. c) Making this an explicit priority. d) Team support.

*Achievement 2:* Trainings, improving knowledge.
Key Elements for Success: a) Clinical expertise. b) Relationships with sites. c) Project Organization.	Factors that Limited Success: a) Site staff turnover. b) Site staff time.	Factors that Ensured Success: a) Key personnel to keep on top of training. b) Being responsive to sites needs. c) Clinical credibility. d) Using patient consults as a form of training.

*Achievement 3:* Delirium training video.
Key Elements for Success: Organized and detail-oriented producer.	Factors that Limited Success: Financial resources, using volunteers instead of professionals.	Factors that Ensured Success: a) On-site production. b) Academic consultants.

*Achievement 4:* Study guide.
Key Elements for Success: a) In-house expertise. b) Team effort on editing.	Factors that Limited Success: None listed.	Factors that Ensured Success: None listed.

*Achievement 5:* Pocket card guide.
Key Elements for Success: a) Site input on content. b) Academic consultants regarding content.	Factors that Limited Success: None listed.	Factors that Ensured Success: Clinical credibility of project staff.

*Achievement 6:* Institutional changes, e.g.: one site changed its forms to capture delirium episodes; another site made plans to hire psychiatric consultants.
Key Elements for Success: Demonstrating usefulness.	Factors that Limited Success: Site staff's competing agendas regarding time.	Factors that Ensured Success: Site's recognition that the project was time limited which helped them plan for the project ending.

1. Lesson Learned: Knowledge does not equal change.

How related to achievements: Trainings increase knowledge only.

2. Lesson Learned: Make writing publications explicit priority with definite timeline.

How related to achievements: Increased productivity.

3. Lesson Learned: Do not rely on one person for the intervention.

How related to achievements: Time constraints, availability, etc.

4. Lesson Learned: Continued presence (training, consults, etc.) may be needed to effect lasting change.

How related to achievements: Not specified.

Completed By: Karina Uldall, M.D., Bernadette Lalonde, Ph.D., Rose Schulte, Holly Huckeba.
Last Updated: August 1999

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University of Washington Center for AIDS and STDs

Evaluation Data

Training Characteristics

Trainee Characteristics

Technical Assistance

Last Updated: August 02, 2001; data through June 15, 1999; analyses conducted January 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.

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.