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Individual and Organizational Characteristics of Effective Frontline Practitioner Performance: A Study of Los Angeles
1Columbia University, School of Social Work.
Aims:
This study examines the strategic contributions of three Frontline Practitioner (FP) attributes for effective HIV testing: risk assessment use, having specialized HIV training, and organizational test setting (nonprofit, forprofit, and public).
Methods:
Data from 621staff in 159 organizations in Los Angeles County, are used to model individual and organizational correlates and use of risk assessment and measures of effective performance (volume of HIV tests, HIV seropositive tests, and referrals to treatment).
Results:
FP with specialized training in HIV care situated in nonprofit outpatient clinics are more likely to use risk assessment. Nonprofit outpatient clinics, FP with specialized training in HIV, and risk assessment use are associated with higher HIV test volume.
Discussion And Implications For Policy And Practice:
FP with specialized HIV training in nonprofit outpatient settings offer testing/counseling services qualitatively different from FP in other settings.
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