Client-Patient Characteristics Knowledge Item 10: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-10
Characteristics of Clients in Medical and Psychosocial Programs

This Knowledge Item characterizes the sample in terms of indicators of service need and vulnerability. Levels of these characteristics are shown for males and females in projects characterized as medical or psychosocial in their focus. Medical programs have the provision of HIV/AIDS medical services as their primary focus. Psychosocial support programs recruit clients into support programs which feature counseling and case management and link the clients to HIV medical services.

Clients in the two kinds of programs differ in certain characteristics. The differences may be due to: a) alternate ways of reporting (or asking about) needs and vulnerabilities between medical and psychosocial support programs; b) recruitment strategies differing between medical and psychosocial programs; and c) the fact that the medical programs tend to recruit any individual with HIV while the psychosocial programs are targeted to specific communities.

Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-12 shows related models of the difference in the patient-client pools in the Medical and Psychosocial Programs.

Time Period	Definition
Current Risk	Risk in the last 30 days
Prior Risk	Risk prior to the last 30 days
No Known Risk	Risk not known to service provider

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Knowledge Item Citation: Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., Panter, A. T., and the HRSA/HAB SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1998-2001). Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-10 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: January 02, 2008; data through June 15, 1999; analyses conducted October 1999 and March - May 2000.

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.