Client-Patient Characteristics Knowledge Item 12: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-12
Models of the Characteristics of Clients in Medical and Psychosocial Programs

This Knowledge Item characterizes the sample in terms of 15 indicators of service need and vulnerability. A model is shown relating patterns of these needs and vulnerabilities to whether the client has been recruited into a medical or psychosocial support program.

On average, males in the medical programs have 5.70 service needs-vulnerabilities while females have 5.92. On average, males in the psychosocial programs have 8.93 service needs-vulnerabilities while females have 7.95. The Psychosocial Programs tend to recruit individuals with more multiple needs, or to assess all individually more fully, to discover these issues.

Overall, the Psychosocial Support Programs tend to be an entry point into the service system for clients (patients) who are identified as the most disenfranchised and consequently potentially have the most severe service needs.

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-12 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.