Appendix G-2

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• The information was good, but it was stuff I already knew. It was just put in slightly better terms. 1
• It is the same as before. 11
• The system in place is one in which it tends to be conservative and moves forward with little baby steps so that there are gradual changes occurring in the system. 48
• It hasn't impacted everyone. Some are less receptive, but those are the ones who didn't attend the training. 53
• I have respect for HIFY for doing this. As for the training itself, I don't know how it has affected the system. 58
• The further we get from the trainings, the less likely we are to remember what we learned. 120
• All shared information helps a little. 121
• I wouldn't be too prepared to offer many trainings from what I learned, but I could do some. 138
• When you work with many service organizations it is often difficult to coordinate education and training opportunities. 160
• I am more willing to be retrained. 178
• It is more interest in training. 184
• We're able to give information better to clients. We didn't have information before. People would take advantage of a new training if there were an opportunity. 191
• It's an ongoing process. It gives the provider more knowledge because the problems mutate/change. The common picture doesn't exist anymore. There needs to be some way to get information. There are too many variants. 200
• I'm afraid the project will become the only place reaching out to women. 230
  
  
  

• The staff can discuss the training together and possibly go to more HIFY trainings and other trainings they learned about through the youth and HIV antibody test training. We learned of more educational and training opportunities available to us. 2
• We have done a lot of classes/trainings just on delirium/dementia. I wouldn't have come back if it hadn't been brought to people's attention. 10
• People realize the trainer is a resource for all. Her perspective is something we didn't have before and she is very accessible. She can answer our questions. She can provide other trainings and she has offered to do so. The staff is also very interested in that. 14
• My institution is not too big on education. The suggestions for the administration or for the staff to get trained are reluctant - reluctant in terms of education. They are more concerned about the money coming in from the community rather than education within the facility. 15
• We all have more knowledge. This makes it easier to take care of somebody. 18
• I have thoughts on long-term effects of training: learning is a continuous process. It is a big part of what I do. I can't pinpoint it to one particular training. It is altogether. There's more general awareness of what behavior risk factors are and how to provide education on prevent. 26
• It increased awareness. 33
• I became an advocate/ambassador to the message. I was encouraged to follow through with youth, to see if they need to go to training. Really understand what I'm trying to say. More education leads to more tools and ways and to getting youth to understand HIV prevention. 36
• The staff now has more knowledge and there will be more training in the future at staff's case conferences. 38
• The training gave me a lot of information to speak comfortably about HIV, which I didn't have before the training. 40
• We are more proactive. It prompted us to take other accesses. 46
• The training was nicely formulated. It encompassed everyone, and the person who presented was pleasing and clear. The information was presented in nice fashion with slides and the presenter was receptive to questions. 47
• The information provided was very good. 52
• The training shed new light so the staff is no longer in the dark about this disease and how it affects people with it. 60
• Residents can now deal better with the patients they come in contact with. It also helps our residents know how to deal with test results and informing/counseling patients. 61
• It got people from different organizations together to network about services they offer. 63
• It helped us to know that the staff needs continuing education especially since things change so frequently with this disease. 65
• The staff now discusses the importance of doing HIV counseling along with testing with pregnant women. The staff let women know that a test of their newborn is also a test of their own HIV status. 76
• There have been improvements made in existing protocols and sensitivity to HIV testing. 81
• It is good in the public health setting. 83
• More people should go to sensitivity trainings. The networking allows for educational opportunities through learning of others' views and about other agencies where referrals can be made or services utilized. 90
• The training itself should be applied to other diseases not as devastating. It can change your mindset and hopefully lead to better policies because of the change. 91
• It provided educational opportunities for other people in the program. 94
• It raised the level of awareness regarding some of the problems related to HIV. 96
• It was something we were already doing but now, it reinforced it. It gave me some academic support for why I do what I do. It helps for people to have something to buy into. 105
• Patients must complete the consent form first. 107
• It stressed the importance of continual, ongoing training for staff. 113
• It taught us methods to teach our patients about lifestyle changes, prevention, transmission, nutrition, etc. 115
• The group, the private sector, they know what to pick up and the routes to take. The residents give more attention to what happens when they get a positive result for a patient and how to deal with the patient. 132
• I knew all of the San Francisco agencies but the others there didn't. I became aware of that and that in itself was useful. 133
• There is limited exposure to the available trainings. 134
• There is more opportunity for people to learn about HIV. 139
• The staff gives patients all the information about the importance of the HIV test. Patients can make more informed decisions about actually getting tested or not. 145
• We got to learn about new training activities. 148
• The information we can give is the best treatment options to our clients. 149
• It is only a medium positive effect when looking from the perspective of the other trainings that I’ve been to - in comparison. 153
• Youth have access to more information since our staff has been well trained by the project. 170
• It encouraged new trainings and the offering of training to wider groups of hospital personnel. This provides us with an opportunity to lower the risk of transmission. 180
• More people are educated. More people are willing to be trained. 186
• When we came back from the training, we shared with others about how it was, what we learned. Everyone was all right with it. 187
• We're kind of "ass-backwards" around here. Things are happening a little bit at a time. There's more awareness and more willingness to be trained. 193
• If we needed to offer trainings, I feel that I can do it. 194
• I learned. 196
• To be informative, you can explain a lot more. 197
• The more education we get, the better we can inform people. 199
• Doing presentations on HIV educates others who in turn can educate other staff, their own families, friends, and clients. 202
• With the clinic treating HIV patients, the teaching process is a lot more accessible to others. 203
• It did have an effect. We don't refuse anyone or anything. 205
• The training made us aware of the need to be educated about the disease, so that now all staff get training on HIV/AIDS. 224
• Other opportunities may increase in the future. 236
• We now have better rapport with others, so we can participate in more trainings. 244
• I was able to network with local service providers who were also attending the training. 245
• It improved the education we offer to our clients. 248
• It is not the minimum positive effect, but it is not the maximum either. It helped but there is still more to learn. 250
  
  
  

• Communication is education in itself. There is never a time when we are not being educated. Rounds have allowed for increased communication among service providers. Therefore, there are always educational opportunities available. 4
• We are more open about it. The information passed on to us was very well done, and it made us open our eyes. 16
• Our education took place after the training. 17
• It helped the staff sort out what a client's situation might entail. It taught the staff specific signs to look for in determining between delirium versus dementia. 42
• I am more able to inform patients on various aspects of the disease such as prevention, treatment, referrals, and follow-ups. 45
• Our staff now portrays the disease in a positive light. We are not afraid of people with HIV/AIDS nor of contracting the disease through casual contact/interactions. The staff now realizes more that "people with HIV/AIDS are people too." 50
• It wasn't consistent before. Some satellites were taking the training and others weren't. Now, it's more consistent. 59
• We now have the resources from the training to use as a useful learning tool for staff and students interning at our clinics. 62
• The staff is more apt to see HIV-positive cases and they have the tools to educate themselves on dealing with these cases. 67
• It opened people's eyes to the need for education. 70
• Our staff now treats all patients the same without regard to their HIV status. 78
• Huge binders with a lot of readings that would be beneficial were given out at the training. I was also informed of other training opportunities and was given information about other agencies for youth when making referrals. 89
• They should offer the training to any referral hospital that wants or needs it. 104
• Administration and other staff are now becoming more aware of HIV/AIDS and the need to have training on it. 108
• We are now better equipped to change our services, which has enhanced our reputation in the community for providing HIV/AIDS care. 109
• It gave us a lot of information we can use to provide education to staff without needing to do lots of research. 110
• Role-playing made our education more sensitive. 112
• The group is allowing educators to be used in a variety of roles to refine the individual processes of the different types of staff in different programs. 114
• The literature/research that comes in - peers come in and they share what they've learned. There is more discussion especially if the newborns should get the different kinds of HIV/AIDS treatment. 119
• We still have a ways to go. I think that we've come a long way though. 122
• If you have no awareness, any awareness is magnified. 131
• Training participants were very receptive to the information. 143
• I received information on how to educate others. 150
• For the reasons I mentioned. 154
• Everybody went in my department. It was a different experience. With the elderly and disabled, there is an awareness dealing with their health. It is better to have a diversified perspective. Training is necessary in any organization dealing with HIV/AIDS - any kind of medical training and in general also. 155
• I can see the difference in how they treat HIV. A lot of their ailments are subjective; they catalogue it with other subjective ailments with the general population. Now, there is more knowledge about what does not go along with the general population. 157
• The system is improving. 162
• It was a very good seminar. The speakers weren't boring and they were very informed. Having people get the information out like that is half the battle. 165
• You could just have a disease and no one will care, but people there do care what happens. It is a deep part of caring - to save lives. 167
• There is increased awareness/consciousness about the disease. 175
• There is better compliance by patients due to counseling. 179
• The only thing was that the training is okay in a clinical setting. There is conflict sometimes in my case doing two different positions. I'm very busy. 192
• Previously we had very little training. As a result, we now have all these new procedures that staff here consistently follow. 195
• We can explain it a lot better and help them understand they shouldn't be bias and they're not going to get disease from the HIV-positive kids they are caring for. We inform foster families about the precautions they need to take with positive foster kids. 204
• I give my answer for the same reason. It made us more comfortable with it now. It is easier for us to educate the inmates. 206
• My area wants more training and education but doesn't know how to relate more with the project. It's an untapped resource in my area and the training gave us just a small taste of what we can gain from these training opportunities. 227
• I have a better perspective about what the needs and issues of women are. 228
• It is fairly new that women with children are becoming a bigger population with HIV. It raises the awareness level. 234
• From where we started and where we are now, others in the service system are finally getting it. The impact has been huge on women with HIV/AIDS and it is significant in terms of the money allocation. 235
• The project always has updated information and their delivery of information was great because they shared all of the information they had with me. In turn, I was able to share the information with the community as a whole. 238
• The training increased our staff's understanding of the issues that HIV-positive women face because of their HIV status. 241
• Personally, I no longer view HIV as taboo, which is what I did before the training. 246
  
  
  

• The training really didn't affect it because as a whole, I really don't think there is a "system." I think there are a lot of individual groups that work together. 6
• HIV care is complicated. We have trainings on other issues. I haven't done anything about dementia or delirium. Since the care conferences have gone on, there is lots of interest in learning in this factor. This part of the care conference and the connection with the trainer has had improved on how much people want to learn. 8
• It is too early. We haven't progressed. 9
• There have been no changes noticed. 13
• I was the only one that took the training. 21
• It only provided expert opinions, not training. 22
• They were already in place. 23
• This was just for me. 25
• I don't think it changed so much. We're not in that particular atmosphere. We don't deal with those patients on a regular basis. If it were on a regular basis, maybe there'd be a change. 30
• It is too early to start trainings. 32
• Training is provided to nurses and social workers only, not other staff. 39
• I don't know. 41
• People haven't shared very much information. 56
• No one else here took the training for it to impact. 71
• We already had in-house trainings on various topics even before the training. 77
• It is just the state of affairs here at the hospital that doesn't allow regular training programs. 80
• The training was excellent and we get so little of it. We need so much more training! The trainer is a great learning tool, but we don’t get many other opportunities for this sort of thing. 88
• The way the administration is set up at this point, there are no guidelines or procedures for system-wide training. Attending trainings are done on an individual basis only. 92
• We have already been instructed on universal precautions. 100
• There really has been no change. 106
• I give the same reasons as before. 118
• There was no change noticed. 123
• I always wanted to inform people. 129
• There was no change. 130
• I don't train anyone. 140
• I don't know. 146
• Not everyone at work had the training. 147
• The knowledge shared with others has been minimal. 168
• Policies already existed around training others. 171
• Because we have no HIV patients. 172
• I don’t know why. We've had major changes a couple of times in the last couple of years. I think they think we have adequate knowledge of the disease. We are so much more aware than we used to be. Everyone thinks about this more. 181
• We've done a lot of education around here. The doctor from Wichita does a lot of education around here. He is very involved. At least in this area, people have their act together. We know what to do. We haven't seen many changes for quite a while. 182
• There were no other trainings or awareness. There are not enough funds for training and re-education. 189
• I haven't seen that sort of an impact. 190
• This was not an earth-shattering thing. It didn't change any care providing issues in general. 198
• I have seen no change. 209
• It just did not. 218
• We don't do a lot of HIV counseling. We're a post-partum unit. 219
• It was more for personal knowledge. Nothing really came about because of it. 222
• We just have more resources now. 242
• Our agency is too small to do education and training. 243

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