A Survey of Program and Clinic Managers
Introduction
In October 2001, the American Social Health Association (ASHA) was funded to continue surveying STD Program and Clinic Managers across the U.S. to assess the degree to which viral hepatitis services were being integrated into STD clinic practice. This study was originally conducted in 1997 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the survey findings from that study are available in the following article: Wilson, BC, Moyer, L., Schmid, G., Mast, E., Voigt, R., Mahoney, F., Margolis, H. Hepatitis B Vaccination in Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinics: A Survey of STD Programs. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2000; 28(3):148-152.
Activities
The scope of work for this cooperative agreement intended to:
- Replicate the original CDC-funded study conducted in 1997;
- Establish new study measures to assess hepatitis A and hepatitis C services;
- Add a random sample of Clinic Managers (n=500) to increase the generalizability of the findings;
- Compare the hepatitis B integration efforts of 1997 with those of 2001 to determine whether efforts have increased; and
- Disseminate study findings.
Outcomes
Several presentations have been made in national conference settings. Data from this research initiative were published in the June 2005 issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. The article, "Integrating Hepatitis B Prevention into Sexually Transmitted Disease Services: Sexually Transmitted Disease Program and Clinic Trends - 1997 and 2001," examines the progress (and lack thereof) in implementing integration recommendations and is available on the CDC's Division of Viral Hepatitis Web site (click here for the PDF).
Contact Information
This project is completed. If you would like to let us know how this research or any of the associated resources have been used in your work, please contact us at info@ashastd.org.
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