HIV-related training programs for health care professionals: findings from a collaborative assessment.

Seeking to avoid duplication of effort, evaluators from twelve separate HIV-related training programs worked together to share information, assessment tools, measurement instruments, and preliminary findings across programs. Each training program focused on preparing health care professionals to meet the growing demands of the AIDS epidemic and specifically address psychosocial issues of care. The collaborative effort of program evaluators included an examination of experiences across programs and yielded recommendations for needs assessments, process evaluation procedures, and outcome measures. This paper focuses on the findings from an analysis of needs assessments and process evaluations across twelve HIV-related training programs in eleven areas of the country.