Client-Patient Characteristics Knowledge Item 03: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Client-Patient Characteristics-03
Levels of Risk Behaviors and Gender Differences

As of June 15, 1999, 17 Cooperative Agreement Projects had, in aggregate, provided services to 2579 men with HIV and 2225 women with HIV/AIDS. The clients were quite heterogeneous in terms of their prior and continued participation in a number of behaviors including involvement with the criminal justice system, unprotected and protected sex with men and women, and various types of prior and current substance use/abuse. There were gender differences in the types of behavioral issues for men and women clients. The diversity in behaviors suggests that HIV/AIDS treatment programs must specifically address these behaviors and their implications for medical treatment, or study differential outcomes based on these behaviors, or both address the behaviors and be aware that they affect program medical outcomes. [The analyses below show only cases that have information on the dependent variable and hence the sample size will not equal 4804 for these analyses.]

HIV/AIDS clients served here have a number of behavioral issues that may need to be simultaneously addressed in order to maximize individual outcomes.

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-03 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 October 1999 and February - 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.