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Kentucky AIDS Education and Training Center (KY AETC)
Needs Assessment

The Kentucky AIDS Education and Training Center (KY AETC) at the University of Kentucky provides free HIV-AIDS training and consultation services to Kentucky health care providers. The KY AETC program offers valuable information and training about providing optimal medical care for your patients and appropriate interventions for you and your staff.

In order to know how to serve you best, we need your input. You can help us in our efforts to serve health care providers across the commonwealth by completing this needs assessment form. Please provide the following information so that we may design and implement training programs specific to your individual needs.

1. Professional Discipline:
Primary Care Physician Advanced Practice Nurse Clinical Pharmacist Dental Hygienist Mental Health Provider Substance Abuse Provider Health Educator	Non-primary Care Physician Nurse Dentist Physician Assistant Social Worker Allied/Other Health Professional Other

2. Your principal employment setting is:

Health Profession academic institution
Community-based organization
Home health/visiting
Hospital-based clinic
HMO facility
Non-hospital mental health
Other

Community/migrant health center
Corrections
Hospital
Private practice (solo or group)
Local/public health clinic/agency
Substance use/abuse treatment

  3. For the following categories, please check the number that best
     describes your learning needs.
     5= high need, 1= little need and NA = Not Applicable.

TOPIC

High
Need

Little
Need

	5	4	3	2	1	NA
a. Diagnosis of HIV/AIDS
b. Prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections.
c. Co-infections /STD’s
d. Substance /abuse, mental health/psychiatric management
e. Treatment of HIV/AIDS including
— Treatment sequencing
— Drug-drug interaction
— Drug resistance testing
—Re-treatment (salvage) therapies
f. Pregnancy and perinatal HIV transmission
g. Dental care-evaluations and management in the HIV/AIDS patient.

4. Which ONE of the following best describes your PRACTICES
regarding treating people with HIV infection?

Provide all HIV care throughout the course of the disease.
Refer HIV+ patients when they fail antiretroviral treatment.
Refer HIV+ patients when they need antiretroviral treatment.
Provide general primary medical care for conditions not related to HIV.
Refer for all care.
Not applicable/Do not provide care.

  5. Which of the following have MOST influenced you to refer
     patients with HIV/AIDS for some or all medical care?
      (Check up to three most important.)

Treatment too complex
Time-consuming nature of care
Concern about occupational exposure
Lack of experience with HIV
My other patients’ fears
Inadequate reimbursement
Do not refer
Not applicable/Do not provide
Other (please specify below)

6. Which of the following have MOST limited your ability to
participate in more HIV/AIDS training? (Mark the top three.)

Don’t know where to get training
Can’t take time away from practice
Distance to training sites
Lack of support from administration
Lack of support from peers
Lack of funds
Lack of staff coverage
Lack of personal interest
None, have enough training
Not applicable/Do not provide care

7. What type of teaching format would you prefer?

Self-teaching/home study curriculum
Clinical practicum (“hands-on” care)
Lecture-based/didactic presentations
Panel discussion
Telephone/fax/email consultation
Distance learning (video teleconference, internet, etc.)
Other (please specify)

  8. How interested are you in having “hands-on” clinical training
      if your travel expenses (beyond 50 miles from the training site)
      and lodging were paid for?

Very interested Moderately interested

Somewhat Not at all interested

  9a. How beneficial would a KY AETC website that contained contact
       information, educational training opportunities, links to other
        AIDS/HIV sites and materials to download be to you?

Very beneficial Moderately beneficial

Somewhat beneficial Not at all beneficial

9b. What specific information would you like to see on a website?

   10. Comments, suggestions, or questions you have for caring
        patients with HIV/AIDS patients that were not covered in the
        above questions.

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Please feel free to contact Kentucky ATEC
through any of one of the following:
Warm line toll free number: 1-859-323-9969
Warm line local number: 1-859-323-9969
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CONTACT THE HIV/AIDS WARMLINE - 1-866-777-9969

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Kentucky AIDS Education and Training Center (KY AETC) Needs Assessment

Kentucky AIDS Education and Training Center (KY AETC)
Needs Assessment