Appendix J-1

• The rounds should continue. 3
• The training was something that all general dentists should be offered. There was a lot of good information to be shared. 5
• I would recommend that this project continue the trainings. 16
• There needs to be a lot more on going training on delirium since the issues and treatments available are constantly changing. There also is a need to train AIDS patients about what they are (or will be) going through as a result of their condition. 37
• The training was very helpful. It should be offered to all high school students as a mandatory class. 40
• All new residents should go through the materials we received from the training on a regular basis. 61
• It was very important. The more people know about HIV, the better. They're doing a great job. 57
• I hope that we can get a follow-up training to bring us up-to-date on changes that have occurred in the last year since the training. I'd love to have the trainings offered at least once a year. 66
• When are we going to do more?! Everyone needs the training! The service providers have been impressed with the trainings! 87
• Every doctor and provider should take the training. 104
• The training was excellent and should be dispersed more among physicians who need such training on HIV/AIDS. 107
• It needs to be an ongoing training offered here. 108
• We should have updates/follow-up trainings every once and a while. 109
• It was excellent. I hope they have follow-up trainings. 116
• It would be a good thing for the entire hospital to have on a larger scale. 126
• It would be best to expand the training to all persons in the health field. 127
• I enjoyed the training, and I recommend that all staff members attend it. 138
• I would like to attend future trainings provided by the project on HIV-related topics. 150
• What else are they planning on a training for?! I loved the training and would like to receive more information about other trainings. 164
• The training could be more widely done, more publicly. It is a good idea to do it at least once a month to become more knowledgeable. I would be good to do it in a forum type setting. 167
• I wish there were more trainings like this one. 202
• I would like to attend it again. They are supposed to have another one in October. 208
• It would be a good idea to do a once-a-year training to have more feedback and find out how others are coping. 213
• I hope they do it again. I think the second training was better than the first. The first one was great, but the second one had more practical information and had better facilitators. Hopefully, next year will be even better and continually get better and better. A lot of the women there too, including me, are living with disabilities. This provides them with a network of friends, to have people they can call. It is valuable in that was as well. It created a community. 234
• It was a great event. It should be an event that happens quarterly at least. With additional funding and support, that same kind of effort can be used to sustain women throughout the year. 251
  
  
  

• The training was well thought out. There was not enough detail in the needs assessment section of the training, however. I liked the training manual we were given. 1
• I thought the training was really good and helpful. Keep up the good work! 2
• They are insightful. They give encouragement and wisdom without being here everyday. 18
• It was very worthwhile. 19
• It was nice to get the training. 21
• I think the study has been out for a year. The problem is that in the time frame when it was being signed, there was a push so that rural providers couldn't say "I deny care to HIV-positive PWAs [Person With AIDS]." The push was to educate them and keep them up to snuff. In the meantime, there was the advent of protease inhibitors and it was apparent to specialists that this wasn't something any family practice should/could manage because it is far more complicated. The study was well-organized but it had bad timing: It was a jump in train of thought. 23
• It was a lot of fun. 25
• I thought it was a good format to provide information to a wide variety of people. Do the study on your own time with everyone's different schedules. 26
• I took this course to learn more. It was good to see if things that have been done and that they're done right. It was a positive reinforcement. The way I approach patients improved a little, but it is more refined. As for more practical effects on the community, in the whole, I don't know. 32
• We've been doing these care conferences for a while. It has not affected any policy. It's helped me to look at the total picture from a total point of view. 35
• I think there should be more role-playing and getting into the community on a field trip–to go out with tools and supplies to give as a gift to the community so they can see who you are. We should get more on-the-job training. 36
• The psychiatric element is usually left up to the doctors, and it's beneficial to have an expert in the psychiatric aspect of care and psychiatric medications. It's helpful to now have that as a part of our overall patient care. 38
• The notebooks were helpful for technical distances with the program. The trainer did a good job of making the training relevant to all staff - nurses, doctors, social workers - it was great! The role-play was very beneficial. 39
• The training was excellent, and I learned a great deal. I wish we could implement some of the things we learned in the training, but we are too short-staffed at my agency. 41
• I think it was on the whole a very good training. I was my first experience with Telemedicine so I think it was a positive experience on my part. I don't have many dealing with adult PWAs [Person with AIDS]. I would like a similar training on HIV-positive children. Some things were touch on like new drugs, clinical manifestations that are seen lot in adults, but not the same in children. I'd like a training that focuses on pediatric cases. 45
• I think even as I was answering the questions, I don't think about the individual training as much as the whole project. Although the trainings were a big part of the project, the overall impact of the project was more effective on prompting change. The training didn't always get to the people it needed to get to. It did spur groups getting together and documents that were developed that went out and influenced institutions. 46
• The training was very worthwhile. I look forward to participating in similar trainings in the future, either on a quarterly or yearly basis. 48
• I enjoyed the training. It was very informative! 49
• The training had a lot of different groups of people present that represented all walks of life, so it was a good information sharing opportunity. 50
• The training was kind of fun! It was a unique training idea and I liked it! I would like to be on their mailing list to participate in future trainings. 53
• The in-service training was provided at a convenient time (i.e., brown lunch sessions) so the staff didn't have to miss time from clinic. The training was a little too long though. 65
• They could give the training on a regular basis to government agencies like ours, especially for our new staff and staff that never received training before. The training was very valuable. 68
• The training was one of the most moving experiences. I was very impressed with how the training program was run. It really changed how our staff deals with patients. 70
• The training was very helpful. 73
• The training was good overall and it was very helpful; it reaffirmed our existing knowledge about HIV/AIDS. 78
• We could have used what we learned in the training if we had HIV-positive patients to treat, but they go to the bigger cities. The information in the training was good otherwise. 80
• The training was very good and informative. 81
• The project has done a fantastic job in being relentless in making people aware of the need for testing. 83
• The training was excellent. They did a good job, and it was useful. 84
• I changed emotionally. There is better flow with things, and I have a greater understanding. The role-playing was interactive and personal experiences were shared. 85
• It was a good training. I got a lot out of it. The other staff wasn’t as advanced as they should have been. 86
• I really respect and admire the project and organization. The trainings are so fresh and interactive. They are not boring like most other trainings out there. The project does a great job! 89
• The project encourages people to go to trainings. The project trainings are really good! The trainers are wonderful. I have never had a negative experience with the project trainings. They are user-friendly, and they provide the right information and tools to work with youth. 90
• A lot of the involvement with the training participants was great. Two of the presenters were fantastic and worked well together. It wasn't boring, but informative. I liked the exercise about saying things about ourselves and learning about each other. It allowed me to look at others in a different perspective. I feel that it's the same way you look at clients so you learn more about who they are. 91
• It was informative. The nurses got a lot out of it. The education in general was good even though they haven't had any HIV-positive patients. 93
• I thought it was very informative. 96
• It was a really good training. I would really recommend it to other people. 97
• The training was excellent! I understand the objective of the training and I hope there are follow-ups to the training by the government, department of health, other legislature, etc. in terms of designing some type of public service information system. HIV is a society-type of problem and we're not doing enough to get the information out to the general population. I would like to see public policy to help community services out there. 98
• It was a valuable learning tool. The satellite way of teaching was very effective. It was geared toward a large range of providers, which was also effective. 101
• Overall, it was a good and well-presented training. It was worthwhile for me. 103
• The role-playing portion of the training was very good in terms of be able to re-enact patients' case history to give our staff a better understanding of how the patients feel and how to react and respond to patients' questions. 110
• Everyone at the project was extremely helpful and motivated. It was a very positive experience for me and the other staff here who attended. It was unique and interesting training in terms of its format. 112
• I enjoyed the training. It was very valuable because now we have concise methods to present HIV counseling and testing to patients. It gave key information and answered questions patients would ask before they asked them. The training was specific to only pregnant patients, I would have like training on HIV counseling and testing for non-pregnant women. 113
• The training was very effective. 115
• I thought it was a good training. I am glad I attended it. 117
• I hope they continue. 118
• I enjoyed meeting the grandmother and the younger woman. They were so open in discussing how they contracted HIV and AIDS. It helped a lot. The instructor was excellent. It was very thought provoking. In order to work with people, you have to have an open attitude. You must go to the beginning; at this end, I am comfortable, but I am not happy with the idea put forth of becoming pregnant having HIV/AIDS. The training solidified my views on that. 119
• It was very well put together and very informative. 120
• The training gave me more information and a wider variety of issues to think about. 121
• I enjoyed it thoroughly. After the training, I took a little stone they gave out as a reminder, and I keep it in my wallet. Every time I open my wallet, I am reminded of the spirit of the training. 122
• It was a good experience. 124
• I was very impressed by the training. One of the instructors just got her Ph.D. in social work from us, and she was an excellent presenter. I work with adults. The session I attended focused on children and families. It would be a great training for adults. Parents make a lot of decisions. They have that right to refuse a service and they should know how to deal with different issues. 128
• The training was a great program. It was very enlightening. I learned a lot of the medical journals, articles about test results, the studies done about reducing the risk of HIV with AZT during pregnancy. I learned the statistics. In conclusion, the adoption of the studies has reduced the spread in babies. They stand a chance for a normal, healthy life. 129
• It was good. Something is better than nothing. 132
• It was excellent. They made it fun, and I very much appreciated it. 133
• Instructors were knowledgeable. It was very positive; there were no negative statements. It was a good training. 141
• Pre- and post-test counseling was well done. Role plays - specific scenarios, not passing judgement, talking about practicing safe sex, etc. - was very helpful. 142
• The training was very, very informative and so was the presenter. It's too bad that HIV testing isn't mandatory. 145
• It is wonderful continuing education on HIV/AIDS for staff since you learn a little more with each training and because we need to be constantly updated on treatments and medications with this disease. 146
• I really enjoyed the information on the AIDS update conference and how we can be a part of that conference since the project sponsored the youth track. 147
• The materials were very helpful, and it is a good resource to refer back to periodically. The trainer was very good. 148
• It was good information for the staff. It would be good to have again. In Texas, there are places in third world conditions. I work in a "colonia," where developers sell plots of land, with no sewer system, no water, no electricity, and people settle there in unsanitary condition. There are families and children with diseases. We give service to that community, to the elderly too, home-care, emergency response, that kind of thing. 155
• The second day is when they covered old material that I already knew, the basics. I learned about the pharmacology and nutrition, to teach patients on their level as well, and to be more aware of where the patient is. The patient teaching aspect of it, to know where the patient is, what level the patient is coming from – it made me more aware of that. 157
• I thought it was very enlightening. It brought me up to date with medications, etc. 159
• It was all very positive, and I enjoyed the classes a great deal. 161
• It was very informative. 162
• I thought it was wonderful. I would like to see it longer and widespread throughout the facility. 165
• I enjoyed it and thought it was really good. 166
• I wish the manual were more extensive. It should cover more ideas for program development and more resources information. Overall, I had a good time, and I learned a lot. 168
• I enjoyed the class; it was beneficial. In my current position, I don't get to use any of the information I obtained in the training. 169
• It was very interesting, especially the peers they used - that was very informative hearing their stories, especially since we have so few HIV cases here. 172
• I thought that the role-playing was good. 176
• I thought it was fun and informative. I remember thinking it was worthwhile but since I don't deal with it very often, it sits on my back burner. 177
• I really enjoyed the actors coming in. It was very helpful especially when they made the professionals go through role-playing the diagnosis. They had to tell actor/patient that the test came back positive. That was good for me. I've never had to do that. 178
• I’m glad I had an opportunity to take it. I’m anxious to take some more training. I attend as much as I can. This last one was one of the best. I'm looking forward to next week's training. I've attended trainings at the local major university. I attended a couple of others as well. I attended one by a large professional organization (a person from the local major university put that on). The local university courses are 3-6 months long. Ahead of what regular civilians are doing. I was privileged to attend those courses. 179
• I'm glad I did it. 181
• I appreciated the opportunity to do the self-study. Most of the time, programs are not anywhere near where we can go. Because we have a small facility, we have lots of jobs we have to do and so we may not have the amount of time necessary to go to a training. It was nice to be able to do the study when I had time. 182
• It was a great experience. 187
• I do remember it was a really good training. Afterwards, several workers decided to get tested. 189
• Just overall, a good session. 190
• I remember it being a good informative session, but we should continue trainings, because the disease is ever-changing. 191
• I think it was a wonderful training, and I am very glad that it was offered to us. 195
• I found it to be very informative and it wasn't as boring as the other ones I attended. 196
• I don't think these questions are fairly representative because the trainer did help a lot, but no broad changes were made in our care delivery system. I don't want my answers to diminish the effectiveness of her trainings. It was very positive to have her involved. It was just hard to measure it from these questions. 198
• It was a well-planned training. They informed you on what you asked. They had well informed speakers. 199
• It was an effective training that needed to occur on an annual basis with staff and our foster families. The training could be incorporated into our agency's basic skills training for all new staff. 204
• It was thorough, very good, and helpful. 205
• They were very informative. The just helped us to understand more about medications and what to look for in terms of a medicine's effectiveness. 212
• It was a really positive experience. It was really helpful in terms of the increased strides in communication between providers and the improvement in the continuity of care. 218
• It was a very good and valuable experience. 219
• I hope they renew their grand and they’ll be around. 227
• In the area of the project’s involvement, they made providers aware. 228
• It has been a rewarding experience. It has been good for the women in Washington, D.C., Maryland and probably Virginia as well. It was a good experience for me too. I don't feel like the Lone Ranger anymore. It is good to have allies from different places. That is what the collaboration has done in terms of HIV/AIDS in this community. 235
• It’s been very helpful to me! 237
• It was great! I really miss them! 238
• They did a great job. The training was better than we all expected it to be. It was easy to listen to, they provided good materials, and the presenter was good 240
• I learned a lot and I treat my clients with confidentiality and I am no longer afraid to have contact with them. 241
• I thought they did a pretty good job with the limited amount of time they had available in which to conduct the training. 242
• It wasn't what I expected in comparison to other trainings on HIV/AIDS that I've attended. It wasn't very informative at all, especially in reference to new resources. 243
• It was good overall. I would like to have other trainings in the future occur on a regular basis. 244
• I admire and like the way they work and fight especially for the HIV-positive women. They are always working and pushing for policy making. They are working hard to change the policies in favor of women. We need to recognize women who are HIV-positive. 250
  
  
  

• The trainer is very knowledgeable, open, and willing to listen. 4
• No. The experience has been very positive with the trainer. I’m very glad she's been here. 13
• The trainer makes what she has to teach understandable to lay people. What she has to teach is not in my training element. She makes it more palatable, with humor both with us and herself. She never hesitates - she is very clear and willing to change her mind. She is not wishy-washy, and she will discuss anything. I told the trainer once that I was proud to get in a particular resident's world. She told me that once you get into this person's world, to make sure I can also get out. She said it with humor and a kind of seriousness at the same time. 15
• It was an exemplary experience to have her here. The trainer’s knowledge base is so vast and sure. She relates that knowledge base in an assuring way. She empowers people with her knowledge base. 20
• They were enjoyable. The trainer is very approachable. I hope she can come over here to be a staff psychiatrist. 22
• The trainer has been great! We wish we had 100 just like her! 42
• The trainer was really cool. I didn't complete the training. I missed some hours. I walked away with a binder of information though. It inspired me to get tested myself. Personally, it made me more secure and less scared. Professionally, it’s good knowledge to have. I’m more comfortable with the subject. I learned about the medical stuff I didn't know before. 58
• The presenters were knowledgeable and made the training interesting. 63
• It is very exciting to have someone come in and join us in talking with patients and provide information and training to help us do our jobs better. The trainer is really good! The rounds make us better clinicians. 88
• The facilitator did an excellent job in terms of integrating people with different jobs and experiences. 94
• The trainer is a nice addition! 102
• Overall, the presenter was great. It was dry material to present - public health theory - but he made it enjoyable and in a way everyone could understand. He did a great job; he had a good sense of who attended. There were no titles between them. He was knowledgeable about the information and made himself available those 2 days. It was really good. I think it was mandated in our contracts this year for everyone to attend the training. 105
• The trainer is a wonderful consultant, and we've enjoyed our work with her. 111
• I really liked the organization of it. It was really appreciated. The biggest downfall was the presenter. That makes it difficult. The presenter didn't have the excitement needed for that length of training. It was long and boring. Some people didn't want to come back after the breaks. It was like you could leave for 3 hours and come back at the same point in his presentation. There needs to be a real facilitator, someone who can know what is going on and stop it or intervene. 153
• The girls who presented the training were knowledgeable and not stuffy. They were well organized; they had pictures, and so on. Everything was absorbed. 158
• They're great people and put a lot of effort into that training. They really care and are active in the community. 160
• The trainers were fairly well organized. 163
• They need new trainers since one of the trainers is not doing the training anymore. The trainers (except one of the trainers) were lacking in material and what they were teaching didn't go with the materials that were distributed (which were supposed to support what they discussed in the training). The booklet of information they gave us was great, but the trainers weren't. They need to provide training more effectively and efficiently by having knowledgeable trainers. 171
• I cannot tell you how professional everybody was at the project. There wasn't anybody I talked to who didn't always know what they were talking about. The project met our needs exceptionally well. The trainer was phenomenal. 175
• The trainers are knowledgeable in their field. The guy that did the training on HIV counseling was really out of sight. Their enthusiasm gets me excited to do other trainings. 194
• The people were very knowledgeable. It was presented in a friendly way with relevant information. It wasn't boring! 206
• Overall, it was an excellent training. The trainer was very good and has the ability to get the information out to the target audience. They care! 236
• I really enjoyed the presenters. They were very dynamic. 245
• I think that they're doing a phenomenal job and I feel very strongly that it has become easier to engage in HIV conversations. The trainer was very personable and dedicated. 246
  
  
  

• There should be hepatitis C training along with HIV training. They are very much within the same realm. (I am also a Hepatitis C counselor.) 6
• The statistics they gave us were very general. They couldn't explain to me what I asked about the statistics. They should be more correct next time. 55
• I think that the booklet needs to be printed rather than photo-copied because the pictures really didn't come out. 95
• It would be really great if there was a component in the training for people who have been providing direct client services for a while. 99
• The first part of the training mostly dealt with agencies and wasn't geared toward correctional facilities. The second half of the training dealt with corrections. More information was needed from the correctional standpoint. 136
• It should be geared more toward prisons because of the emotional boundaries in the correctional facilities that cannot be passed on to an inmate. 140
• I would have like to have done a lot less role-playing; it was too much. 149
• I wish we'd have more opportunities to train other hospitals and providers especially in smaller suburbs and those with low risky behaviors. 143
• I didn't like the computer-based mode of training because it was difficult to grasp what was going on without having a live person to expand on the ideas presented. The best part were the materials that accompanied the computer part. The training felt like a chore - we didn't look forward to doing it everyday since it was conducted during our lunch hour. 144
• Basically, it'd be ideal if the setting was right. The training was not practical in the setting we have. 210
• I would certainly like to see them do more and include more service organizations for women at the training. 230
• The project needs to get more service providers at the training. There were only four of us there and we weren’t representative of all the services available to women. 231
  
  
  

• So far, it has been very positive and very worthwhile to be part of the follow-up. We want to offer the best to our clientele. That's our mission statement. We are awakening to realize that we haven't been offering the best to clients and this is the chance to set things straight. Hope for best. 9
• It was hard to remember all the details about the training asked in this interview since I participated over a year ago. 52
• This follow-up interview was done too far after the training. The follow-up interviews should be done much sooner after the training so the participant can remember the training better. 72
• Do the interview sooner, closer in time to the training. Also, have more publications; include a more diverse group. It would go a lot further than within a segregated population where it is not enhancing. 131
  
  
  

• I have no other comments. 8
• No other comments. 10
• No other comments. 11
• No other comments. 14
• We now have informational meetings once a month and patient surveys to find out about their perceptions of our education. 17
• None. 24
• No. I've said it all. 30
• No other comments. 33
• No other comments. 47
• No other comments. 51
• There is nothing I can think of at the top of my head. 56
• No other comments. 59
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• No other comments. 77
• No other comments. 82
• None. 92
• None. 100
• I have nothing to add. 106
• No other comments. 114
• No other comments. 123
• No other comments. There is nothing else I can remember. 130
• None. 134
• None. 139
• No other comments. 151
• No other comments. 154
• No other comments. 170
• No other comments. 173
• Not that I know of. 197
• No other comments. 203
• No other comments. 209
• No. 220
• I have no other comments. 222
• None. 224
• None. 229
• No. 248
• I was not able to answer a lot of the questions because I have had no experience with women, but in a month, I will have the job of family resource specialist. This is due to my participation in the project. 239

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