HRSA SPNS All Project Conference Call
April 02, 2001 @
10:30 am
David Barney, Herman Curiel, Betty Duran, Ledia Martinez,
Robyn Schulhof, Joao Ferreira-Pinto, Luiza Amodeo, Michael Tarter, Joaquin
(El Paso), Kari Maier, Jennifer Eggerton, Barbara Estrada, John Wiebe, Chris
Johnston, Joseph Baldi, Steve Trujillo, Ken Burton, Rosana Scolari, Mari Zuniga,
Alisa Olshefsky, Kurt Organista, Marisa Olivares, and Bob Smith.
| a. Joseph Baldi (HRSA - Bureau of Primary Health
Care) |
Short
presentation acknowledging projects efforts to address HIV/AIDS along the
US/Mexico Border. Has been updated
on projects’ progress by Dr. Aranda-Naranjo and is pleased with overall efforts.
Will be able to attend our grantees meeting on August 2-3, 2001 to
be held in Washington, DC.
| b. Kurt Organista – report on meeting with Mexican
officials on bi-national health initiative |
Meeting in Mexican President
Fox’s Office – Bi-National Migrants Imitative – people from California legislature
(Latinos) attended. Interested in
funding short term projects on migrant health issues. California Endowment is committed to provide
50 million to support this initiative.
| a.
Arizona Border HIV/AIDS Care Project: |
Steve – continue
surveys of SIA’s and have begun to submit data collected to David.
Vouchers are being provided to clients who complete all five instruments.
Working with border health centers on provision of HIV medical services.
April 18th - AETC meeting to review data instruments for
assessment of training. Several other
meetings scheduled. Barbara – submitted
data to OU and David provided her spread sheet on submitted data. Provided summary of data collected to date.
Outreach contacts are documented - 201 individual contacted, actual
outreach contacts exceed 1,000. She will develop code book for acculturation
module and submit to David. Steve
advised that clients have expressed concern with not having their HIV care
transferred to clinic along the border. These
clients have been assured this will not happen. Only three Hispanics indicated in data, which
means these were the only Spanish speaking Hispanics who completed the modules,
other Hispanic clients are bi-lingual. Found
html forms to be easier to complete.
| b.
Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe: |
Chris Johnson – Received
final IRB approval for their instruments.
In process of scheduling local training with project staff.
Joaquin advised Ray Stewart is on leave. Joaquin reported one of the RNs resigned and they hope to interview
applicants this month. RNs will attend
training in May in New Orleans. MSW/LMSW
position will be advertised this week. Reported on other scheduled meetings related
to the project.
| c.
Camino de Vida Center for HIV: |
Luiza – they have been
conducting outreach in soup kitchens and are beginning to also work with sex
workers. The bubble sheets from the State Health Department
are being completed at present time for data collection. Joao – collecting field notes for qualitative
analysis. Jennifer has been using
Adobe when submitting data to OU.
Marisa – have scheduled three in-takes that
are now complete. Dr. Sinclair will provide training at all three
locations, Dr. Jacobson from California will also be working with their project.
Clinica del Valle staff are having a difficult time
dealing with HIV in the work environment – fear of infection despite
universal precautions. Valley AIDS
Council needs to develop a consent form for clients being referred by outside
agency (Inter-disciplinary Agreement). Steve
has a form which he will share with Marisa.
Scheduled conference call on Wednesday with all their clinics.
| e.
San Ysidro Health Center: |
Rosana – Have begun presentations in community. Reported on upcoming meetings. Site visit with Centro de Evaluacion scheduled
for this week. Mari – met with AETC
coordinator to work on evaluating AETC training. Alisa – completed training with all sites (32
persons). Have begun to collect baseline
data at Vista and San Ysidro. Local
data modules have been translated to Spanish. Completed transcriptions of focus groups (6hours),
70 pages of typed information. Mari
– Included review of medical records on IRB application, which will be revised
to state that the medical reviews will end on June 30, 2005 (end of grant
period).
| 3. Multi-site evaluation
issues: |
David
– Barriers Module: plans to work with San Diego to develop a barriers module
during site visit. Hopes to post a draft of the barriers module
on the web page by the end of next week.
Will use The Measurement Group barriers module to guide development
of the multi-site barriers module. Currently
working on bulletin board for web page where projects can post information.
| a.
Qualitative Study – focus groups (Betty): |
Approval of IRB has been
received. Herman and Betty will be responsible for coordinating
the focus groups. Plan to begin shortly
after July 1st and will be contacting sites to determine the number
of groups to be interviewed.
| b.
Incentives for Qualitative Study |
Report by Kurt and Michael:
Kurt & Michael’s comments e-mailed to all projects.
Believe that sites may want to develop some measure to determine impact
of incentives on client participation as they all use the same data modules
for the multi-site evaluation. Steve
– their project is only paying a flat fee of $25 for completion of all module
forms. John is willing to go with general consensus
as long as reasonable and that the resources are available to measure this
effort. Mari – they are considering
using various types of incentives to which their partners have agreed to. David summarized that everyone agrees that
incentives are beneficial and that its’ assessment is to be determined locally.
Herman Curiel – Translation Committee has
finished revisions of code book and instruments. Beatrize Vera will edit for corrections this week, then committee
will review one more time. Betty will
send final copy to all sites by next Wednesday (if all completed as scheduled).
David believes he will be able to put into Teleform by the end of April.
Kurt raised questions about two variables: Var. 602 – Kurt suggested
information be changed to services, David advised this is asking about receipt
of information. Var 604 – focus should
be respect and dignity versus individualized attention. This information will be relayed to Translation
Committee.
Abstract
due today for National Minority AIDS Conference to be held
in Miami in September. Projects
encouraged to apply.
None
August 2-3, 2001 in Washington, DC – Will be held at the River Inn/Hotel.