The goal of ATN 093 is to determine program-level factors associated with the effectiveness of SMILE in Caring for Youth Linkage-to-Care (LTC) program network at the 15 Adolescent Medicine Trial Units (AMTU). This will be accomplished by evaluating and categorizing the various LTC programs at the AMTUs and then examining the association between the LTC program characteristics (providers, practices, and systems) and the proportion of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infected youth, ages 12-24 years old, inclusive, linked to care and maintained in care. As such, this study focuses on LTC programs at the AMTUs as the unit of analysis and not the youth themselves.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
2,133
Children's Hopsital of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
Univ of Califormia at San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Administrative Data
Program data will be electronically extracted from the LTC program records and transmitted to the ATN DOC to be used for research purposes.
Time frame: Daily
Primary Research Data
Collected by the ATN 093 Research Associates (RA). Will include a structured review of written materials, surveys and interviews of AMTU linkage-to-care staff, surveys of partnering agencies, and observations of LTC activities.
Time frame: variable
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