Journal Articles and Presentation from this Cross-Cutting Evaluation

Journal Articles and Presentations from the Cross-Cutting Evaluation of the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Special Projects of National Significance Cooperative Agreements on Innovative HIV/AIDS Care [1994 - Present]
Major cross-cutting papers, presentations, and reports derived from the experiences and evaluation results of the 27 HRSA Special Projects of National Significance Grants. The papers on this list are those in which The Measurement Group--PROTOTYPES Evaluation and Dissemination Center played a key role as the coordinator, evaluator, or disseminator of the cooperative efforts. Most of these products represent a collaboration between the Evaluation and Dissemination Center and appropriate investigators from several or all of HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Projects. Papers are added to this list as they are accepted for publication, so the list changes frequently.

Special Issue of Home Health Care Services Quarterly
Grantees of HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement have prepared a special issue of the journal Home Health Care Services Quarterly: The Journal of Community Care. The issue table of contents and abstracts of the papers are presented.

Special Issue of Drugs and Society
The Community Based Organization and Comprehensive Healthcare Grantees of HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement have prepared a special issue of the journal Drugs and Society. The table of contents for the issue and abstracts of the papers are presented.

Grantees Supported by this Evaluation and Dissemination Center

HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement Project Resource Index
Project-specific web pages containing program related presentations, abstracts, and reports about the 27 national demonstration projects supported by this Evaluation and Dissemination Center.

HRSA/HAB's SPNS 1994-1999 Cooperative Agreement Grantees
The 27 grantees supported by the Evaluation and Dissemination Center are listed here with hotlinks to their project abstracts and the email addresses of their project directors. Each of these projects is developing an innovative model of HIV/AIDS care.

HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee Representatives
This section lists HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee Representatives.

Evaluation and Dissemination Center Conference Page: Abstracts, Papers, and Presentations by Grantees at Professional Conferences
Abstracts, Papers, and Presentations from conferences between 1996 and 1999. Conferences include the following and others: 12th World AIDS Conference 1998; 11th International AIDS Conference 1996; American Evaluation Association (AEA) 1997 and 1998; American Psychological Association (APA) 1997, 1998, and 1999; American Public Health Association (APHA) 1996, 1997, and 1998; National AIDS Update Conference (NAUC) 1998 and 1999; Ninth Annual Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS 1997; and Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Association (SAMHSA) 1997.

Evaluation and Dissemination Center

About The Measurement Group–PROTOTYPES Evaluation and Dissemination Center for the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Special Projects of National Significance
From 1994 through 2000, The Measurement Group has maintained a research center specializing in evaluation and results dissemination for 27 grantees funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau as Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). The projects were funded to develop innovative models of care for individuals with HIV/AIDS. The documents linked to this page were either developed by The Measurement Group as part of conducting the Evaluation and Dissemination Center or are grantee works which were supported by the Evaluation and Dissemination Center through common data methods and other assistance.

Recent Summaries and Training Materials

Ryan White CARE Act All Titles Grantee Meeting, January 2000

Preliminary Major Cross-Cutting Evaluation Results: September 1999

Updated versions of most of these results are available in the Online Knowledge Base.

Selected Multi-Site Evaluation Results Relating to HIV Services for Underserved and Vulnerable Groups: The HRSA/HAB SPNS Cooperative Agreements 1994 - 1999 
Presentation made at the final HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee Meeting, Poster and Grantee Panel Sessions, September 16, 1999, at the Parklawn Building in Rockville, Maryland. [HTML / PDF]

Selected Multi-Site Evaluation on Innovative HIV/AIDS Training Models: The HRSA/HAB SPNS Cooperative Agreements
1994 - 1999
Presentation made at the final HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee Meeting, Poster and Grantee Panel Sessions, September 16, 1999, at the Parklawn Building in Rockville, Maryland. [HTML / PDF]

Effects of HIV/AIDS Training on Patient Care and Provider Practices
Presentation made at the Gertrude M. Cox Statistics Conference, September 10, 1999. [HTML / PDF]

Other Materials from the Cross-Cutting Evaluation of the 27 Supported Special Projects of National Significance

Accomplishments of The Measurement Group – PROTOTYPES Evaluation Dissemination Center
This provides a summary of major achievements and activities of the Evaluation and Dissemination Center for the HRSA/HAB/SPNS Cooperative Agreement Projects.

Project Completion Conference, Grantee Panels, and Poster Session at HRSA
The purpose of the conference was to bring the SPNS projects together to discuss the findings from the 27 HIV/AIDS service demonstration projects funded by the HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA/HAB) as Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). The session was held at HRSA in September 1999.

Fact Sheets from the Cross-Cutting Evaluation of HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements
Fact sheets based on information in The Measurement Group HIV/AIDS Knowledge Base: Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care, which can be viewed online and printed on your own printer.

Plan for the Cross-Cutting Evaluation by The Measurement Group and Evaluation Instruments
Resources developed in the process of conducting a cross-cutting evaluation of the 27 innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. Many instruments and instructions for their use are posted under this section.

Evaluation Modules on the World Wide Web
As part of its work for the Evaluation and Dissemination Center for HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Grantees, The Measurement Group, in consultation with the grantees, developed evaluation modules to be used in studies of HIV/AIDS treatment, training, and infrastructure development. Most of the modules are shown in this section along with the context for their development and instructions for completing the forms. Many of these forms were originally developed to be scanned. The forms presented here have had their scanning capability disabled so that the forms cannot be mistakenly scanned into TMG databases.

Evaluation Materials Developed for Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Service Grantees
Specialized evaluation modules developed in the process of conducting a cross-cutting evaluation of the 27 innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. These specialized evaluation modules supplement those developed for the general cross-cutting evaluation.

Cooperative Agreement Achievements and Lessons Learned
The Cooperative Agreement site major achievements and lessons learned related to their individual programs, work groups, and the Cooperative Agreement in general.

HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement Projects Worksheets
These six worksheets were used to gain feedback on the major achievements and lessons learned related to the Work Groups and the Cooperative Agreement.

Metro DC Collaborative for Women with HIV/AIDS Needs Assessment Instruments
Evaluation instruments was developed by The Measurement Group to conduct need assessment among healthcare and social service agencies in the greater Washington D.C. area.

Protease Inhibitor Study for HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements
Proposal for a cooperative study of the use of protease inhibitors in various HIV/AIDS therapies.

Adherence to Protease Inhibitor Combination Therapy among Youth: A Report from a Focus Group on Issues for Youth Living with HIV
Introduction to the issues and concerns regarding protease inhibitor combination therapy among youth. This report is based on a focus group conducted by The Measurement Group.

The Continuing Need for HIV Advocacy
This report examines the unmet advocacy needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. Based upon information from four legal advocacy projects, a literature review, and two focus groups conducted with ex-offenders and with youth.

61 Evaluation Questions for HIV/AIDS Services Projects
Evaluation questions proposed by The Measurement Group as applicable to the 27 HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement Projects. The list of questions was developed between March and May 1998. The questions are also more generally appropriate for other projects studying the issues in implementing HIV/AIDS services. The questions are given in three sets: a) those applicable to projects that focus on HIV services for individual patients or clients; b) those applicable to projects that focus on training individuals who provide HIV services to patients or clients; and c) those applicable to projects that are seeking to change the infrastructure for HIV services.

Missouri Department of Health Integrated Care for Individuals with HIV/AIDS, Mental Illness, and/or Substance Abuse Problems
A report by The Measurement Group evaluating different models of HIV/AIDS care for individuals multiply diagnosed with HIV, substance abuse, and mental illness. Three such models were implemented in Kansas City, St. Louis, and rural Southeast Missouri. The evaluation was conducted through interviews with key participant-observers. The report explains and evaluates the models.

SPNS Cooperative Agreement Evaluation Conference, September 15-16, 1995
The purpose of the conference was to bring the SPNS projects together to discuss the evaluation components of their projects and to learn, from each other and from EDC technical consultants brought to the conference: (1) how to deal with difficult evaluation issues that arise during the course of projects involving provision of services to HIV individuals; and (2) what methods/approaches might facilitate dealing with these issues for both the national and local evaluations of the projects.

Early Cooperative Agreement Project Reports and Presentations

Cooperative Agreement Project Resource Materials
Various resource materials for HIV/AIDS treatment programs developed by Cooperative Agreement Projects.

First Year Report from the 1994 Cooperative Agreement Grantees
Summary of the report issued by the 27 grantees on their progress in building innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. Report issued in Spring 1996.

Programs That Work: A Second Year Summary of Twenty-Seven Innovative Models of HIV Care
This report summarizes the progress made by 27 programs funded as innovative models of care by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. This is a short summary of the full second year report. Report issued in Spring 1997.

Progress During the Second Year: A Summary Report
This full report presents the progress made by 27 programs funded as innovative models of care by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. Report issued in Spring 1997.

Evaluation of an Internet Web Site for Disseminating HIV/AIDS Information
This poster was presented at the 106th annual convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) in San Francisco on August 16, 1998. This poster describes the evaluation of utilization patterns of the web site at www.TheMeasurementGroup.com. The presentation focuses on the use of the Internet as a vehicle for disseminating evaluation results and examines whether a web site featuring the methods, clinical procedures, and evaluation results of 40 national demonstration projects on HIV/AIDS services is an effective way to disseminate scientific and programmatic information.

Presentations on Issues of HIV/AIDS Care and the Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Projects
This section presents slide shows on various issues in HIV/AIDS care by Cooperative Agreement Projects.

Infrastructure-Advocacy Work Group Qualitative Evaluation Report
This report discusses approaches used by the Infrastructure - Advocacy Work Group to develop, improve, and/or refine HIV care and service delivery systems. The Infrastructure - Advocacy Work Group consists of the Center for Women Policy Studies, Hektoen Institute for Medical Research/Cook County HIV Primary Care Center, Health Initiatives for Youth, Indiana Community AIDS Action Network, Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Missouri Department of Health, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and the University of Texas Health Science at San Antonio.

The Comprehensive Healthcare Work Group Qualitative Evaluation Report
Report developed by HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Comprehensive Healthcare Work Group and The Measurement Group to educate people about their projects, their experiences, and the lessons learned in the initial years of the programs. The three Comprehensive Healthcare Projects are: The University of Nevada School of Medicine, The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College and Washington University School of Medicine.

Cooperative Agreement Project Reports
Reports on selected Cooperative Agreement Projects.

SPNS/Fax: An Electronic Report from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements
SPNS/Fax reports are short newsletters from the 27 Innovative Models of HIV Care funded by the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance Program. Each issue of SPNS/Fax highlights findings from these projects. The projects have been funded to develop innovative models of HIV/AIDS care. This report is distributed every two weeks by facsimile machine and also posted at this web site.

HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement Poster Session on 27 Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care
Posters for HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Poster Session on 27 Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care held in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 1997.

National AIDS Update Conference Resource Page
Links to posters, presentations and other materials relevant to the March 1998 National AIDS Update Conference.

Presentations from the 1997 American Evaluation Association Meeting (AEA)
Presentations given at the 1997 American Evaluation Association Meeting (November 1997 in San Diego).

Abstracts and Presentations from the 1997 American Psychological Association Meeting (APA)
Abstracts and presentations from the 1997 American Psychological Association Meeting held in Chicago.

Presentations and Posters from the 1997 American Public Health Association Meeting (APHA)
Presentations and posters given at the 1997 American Public Health Association Meeting (November 1997 in Indianapolis).

Abstracts from the 1996 American Public Health Association Meeting (APHA)
Abstracts from the November 1996 American Public Health Association Meeting in New York. A number of the projects on innovative models of HIV/AIDS care made presentations at this conference. Hotlinks are provided to the project abstracts.

Abstracts, Posters, and Presentations from the 1997 SAMHSA National Conference on Women
Abstracts and posters from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Conference on Women in Phoenix (September 1997).

Abstracts and Posters from the Ninth Annual Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS
Abstracts and posters from the Ninth Annual Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS (June 1997).

Abstracts from the XIth International AIDS Conference by HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement Projects
Abstracts from the July 1996 International AIDS Conference in Vancouver. A number of the projects on innovative models of HIV/AIDS care made presentations at this conference. Hotlinks are provided to the project abstracts and the project directors.

Other Dissemination Efforts

PROTOTYPES Web Page
PROTOTYPES provided logistics and dissemination support to HRSA SPNS Cooperative Agreement grantees from 1994 through 1999. This link is to their home page. The PROTOTYPES site contains information about the Cooperative Agreement grantees.

Other Information and Resources

Information about the Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau's Special Projects of National Significance
Project officers associated with the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance Program. Links are provided to each project officer via email.

Other HIV/AIDS Resources on the World Wide Web
List of National and Regional information sources providing data on the continuum of HIV/AIDS data to care issues in HIV/AIDS Care/Services Delivery.

Resources About Health Research, Evaluation, and Statistical Modeling on the World Wide Web
List of information sources providing information on professional associations, statistical programs, statistics on HIV/AIDS and other medical conditions, and journals on issues of health research and related topics.

The Evaluation and Dissemination Center is supported in part by Grant Number 5 U90 HA 00030-05 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Program. The contents of this site are soley 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.