Conference Abstract

The Cross-Cutting Evaluation Of 27 National HIV/AIDS Care Demonstration Projects: HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement Evaluation Modules Available for Use by HIV/AIDS Projects. Huba, G.J., Melchior, L.A., De Veauuse Brown, N., Brief, D.E., and Panter, A.T. TMG.

Poster Presentation

Category: Policy & Administration

Presentation Date & Time: 03/24/98 12:00:00

The Special Projects of National Significance HIV Innovative Models of Care Program is an effort by 27 cooperative agreements funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to jointly establish goals and objectives, develop common evaluation methods, and produce comparable and measurable outcomes. The Evaluation and Dissemination Center for HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement, in collaboration with the grantees and HRSA, has designed and implemented a core evaluation to capture common elements across the 27 SPNS Program projects. The cross-cutting or national evaluation for the cooperative agreement projects uses a modular approach in which standardized forms were developed to answer a number of different functional evaluation questions. Modules include short 1-2 page surveys, self-administered questionnaires, checklists, interview forms, and other standardized data collection protocols. Many of the evaluation modules were developed in a scannable form that can either be faxed for automatic entry into the database using an innovative fax-in data transfer technology system, or mailed in for scanning. Data forms, received either from the fax or from the scanner, are automatically appended to the project database thus yielding data which is immediately up-to-date. By developing very brief modules, data collection efforts for different projects are customized by including those modules that fit the purpose of the project. By using common modules across the 27 projects, as much comparable data as possible may be obtained. The evaluation modules are available along with associated training materials on the World Wide Web at www.TheMeasurementGroup.com.