Training Impact: Provider Practices and Patient Care Knowledge Item 07: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Training Impact: Provider Practices and Patient Care-07
How the Training Affected Service Delivery

In a cross-cutting telephone study of 218 service providers who were interviewed an average of eight months after HIV/AIDS training, trainees provided concrete examples of how the training session improved or changed the way care is delivered in general. They were asked to give examples about how the training experiences affected how care is delivered at the system-level.

Seven types of changes due to the training were identified: (1) Change of Procedures and Policies; (2) Heightened Awareness; (3) Greater Confidence and Sensitivity; (4) More Resources and Knowledge; (5) More Staff Collaboration; (6) More Health Precautions; (7) No Effect.

Trainees who mentioned specific post-training systemic changes in care provision from increased resources and knowledge or changed procedures and policies found the training to be more effective than trainees providing other example types.

Program administrators were less likely to indicate that the training led to changes in procedures and policies for care provision. Nurses, nurse practitioners, and dentists, on the other hand, were much more likely to report change in this area. These latter providers tended not to report that training gave them greater confidence and sensitivity when dealing with patients/clients. Trainee characteristics did not significantly relate to training effectiveness ratings.

Percent of Trainees Who Indicated Training Affected How Care is Delivered 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-07 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.