Training Impact: Provider Practices and Patient Care Knowledge Item 06: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Training Impact: Provider Practices and Patient Care-06
How the Training Affected Trainee Referral Patterns

In a cross-cutting telephone study of 218 service providers who were interviewed an average of eight months after HIV/AIDS training, trainees were asked: "How have the training session(s) you attended improved or changed the way you refer patients/clients to other services? Please tell me a specific example from your own experience about how the training(s) affected your referrals/referral patterns."

Five themes were coded from the participant open-ended examples about changes in referral patterns due to the training: (1) Discovered New Referral Options; (2) Greater Confidence; (3) Heightened Awareness; (4) Do Not Provide Referrals; and (5) No Effect.

Trainees rated the training as effective when their concrete examples related to how the training helped them discover new referral options, gain greater confidence with referrals, and acquire a heightened awareness of the referral process.

Project site and gender predicted the example types that were provided, and project site predicted training effectiveness ratings. Trainees working in the HIV field for less than one year tended to find the training to be least effective in the referral area.

Percent of Trainees Who Indicated Training Affected How They Refer Clients in These Ways...

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: Provider Practices and Patient Care-06 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.