Definition: Psychosocial Services Coding

Psychosocial Services Coding

In the evaluation of the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau SPNS Cooperative Agreements, Psychosocial Services were coded from a common form, called Module 2B, into a group of summary indices of the client's service history.

Each of the projects that provided psychosocial services collected information on a number of service categories using either a paper-and-pencil form (Module 2B), or the electronic equivalent in a database. Module 2B shows a set of 35 services that were coded on each day they were provided to a client.

For the purposes of many major analyses, the services, we used nine variables coded as follows.

Category	Types of Services Included	Notes
*HIV Prevention/Intervention Services*	HIV risk assessment HIV pre-test counseling HIV testing HIV post-test counseling HIV prevention Other HIV-related services	Category has remained as originally coded
Mental Health Services	Individual therapy/counseling Psychiatric evaluation Psychosocial assessment Crisis intervention (individual) Other mental health	Reassigned as follows: Individual Counseling Services = individual therapy/counseling OR individual crisis intervention OR other mental health Psychiatric/Psychosocial Assessment = psychiatric evaluation OR psychosocial assessment
Group Counseling	Crisis intervention (group) Family/couple counseling Group counseling Peer support group Other group	Reassigned as follows: Group (not Couple) Counseling = group crisis intervention, group counseling, peer support group Family/Couple counseling = family/couple counseling
Substance Abuse Services	12-step group Relapse prevention Substance abuse counseling	Category has remained as originally coded
Case Management Services	Advocacy services Clinical assessment Educational services Financial services Housing Legal services Medical Vocational services Other case management	Category has remained as originally coded

For the analyses, nine categories of services are used, some of which are subsets of one another. To clarify the relationships among these types of variables, the following outline shows the five general categories. Two of the five general categories are further subdivided into two sub-categories each, for a total of nine ways of categorizing the individual services. For most of the analyses all nine categories of services are employed.

1) HIV Prevention/Intervention Services

2) Mental Health Services

a) Individual Counseling Services

b) Psychiatric/Psychosocial Assessment

3) Group Counseling

a) Group (not Couple) Counseling

b) Family/Couple Counseling

4) Substance Abuse Services

5) Case Management Services

Analysis Variation 1: For some analyses, clients are categorized for each of these variables into individuals who received one or more days of such service at some time during their treatment.

Analysis Variation 2: For some analyses, the actual number of days that clients received each of the nine types of services are coded.

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Psychosocial Services Coding

Notes

Group Counseling

Substance Abuse Services

Case Management Services