Client-Patient Characteristics Knowledge Item 28: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-28
Profile of Hispanic Clients: II. Subgroups

This Knowledge Item amplifies Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-14 which compares Hispanic patients to patients who were from other ethnic backgrounds. In this Knowledge Item, subgroups of Hispanic clients are compared in terms of their other demographic characteristics, service needs, and vulnerabilities.

It is important to recognize that this Knowledge Item should be treated as suggestive rather than as definitive. There are large amounts of missing data for some of the subgroups of Hispanic clients, and the subgroupings are related to project site (or catchment area, ranging from Los Angeles to South Texas to Chicago to Brooklyn which tend to have residing in them Hispanic clients from different subgroupings). The patterns of missing data are confounded with project sites as some projects did not collect all risk behaviors and service needs and project site is confounded with the percentages of the different Hispanic subgroups in the service population.

Note that projects could code their clients as (undifferentiated) Hispanic Ethnicity, or further specify a subgrouping such as Puerto Rican, Mexican American, South American, Central American, and other groupings. In many cases projects that did tend provide differentiated subgroupings on some patients did not do so on many of their patients, either because they did not know the original of the patient (or her family) or because they chose to code that patient in the undifferentiated way.

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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-25 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 April - February 2001

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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Use of Knowledge Base Information: Acceptable Uses and Limitations.

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.

More Information: Design of this Knowledge Base.

Recommended Citation Format for Web Materials: American Psychological Association Publication Manual Section, Revised 2001.

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.