| Main Purpose |
The purpose of this module is to develop a method for
assessing the quality of the services infrastructure in the region by asking
representatives of service providers to rate a series of attitude questions using standard
categories of agreement and disagreement. Items are selected to measure a number of major
themes in the service network including mainstreamed services, the use of funds for
specific target groups, the necessity of locating services in the community, treatment
models, and the ability of different providers to work well together. |
| Description |
- Versions of the Infrastructure-Attitudes Form have been used by HRSA in a 7-city study
of HIV-positive drug abusers and by 6 Adolescent SPNS projects. An alternate version has
been used with 900 California service providers. The version appended to this sheet is
from the adolescent studies.
- The questions in this draft need to be changed slightly to make it appropriate for the
full range of HIV-positive individuals targeted by the current Cooperative Agreement Projects.
- Items are designed to elicit a wide variety of opinions about how the service system
works.
- Self-administered.
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| Target Projects for Form |
- Any project seeking to change the overall infrastructure in its catchment area regarding
services for one or more target groups.
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| Major Evaluation Function |
- Documenting change in the way that agencies in a particular catchment area view one
another or the overall service delivery system.
- Changes in the degree of consensus (that is, item variability) are just as important as
changes in average level of agreement with the items.
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| Citation(s) |
- Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., Staff of The Measurement Group, and
HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1995). Module 8: Self-Administered Provider Service
System Perceptions Questionnaire. Available:
www.TheMeasurementGroup.com.
Culver City, California: The Measurement Group.
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