Training Impact: Provider Practices and Patient Care Knowledge Item 03: Results from HRSA/HAB's SPNS Innovative Models of Care

Knowledge Item: CA-Training Impact: Provider Practices and Patient Care-03
How the Training Affected How Trainees Think About HIV

In a cross-cutting telephone study of 218 service providers who were interviewed an average of eight months after an HIV/AIDS training experience, open-ended responses were coded from the comments and examples that trainees provided to the question: "Overall, how did the training that you attended affect how you think about HIV?"

Eight content categories were identified: (1) Specific Information about Patient Care; (2) Insight and Validation; (3) General Information about HIV; (4) Heightened Awareness about HIV/AIDS; (5) Changed Attitudes and Beliefs; (6) Greater Comfort, Confidence, and Compassion in HIV Care; (7) No Effect Because Already Knowledgeable; The "Resistant Trainee"; and (8) No Effect.

High training effectiveness ratings were most associated with examples about how the training changed attitudes and beliefs, how it provided greater comfort, confidence, and compassion, or how it heightened awareness.

Program administrators were much more likely to report that they acquired specific information about patient care due to the training. However, trainee characteristics did not predict how positively the training was perceived.

Percent of Trainees Who Indicated Training Affected How They "Think About HIV" in These Ways...

Knowledge Item Citation: Huba, G. J., Panter, A. T., Melchior, L. A., and the HRSA/HAB SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1998-2001). Knowledge Item: CA-Training Impact: Provider Practices and Patient Care-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 June 1999.

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.