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Appendix I: Title X– and OPA-Funded Research
Appendix I: Title X– and OPA-Funded Research
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. These include grants made under the Service Delivery Improvement research standing announcement and through cooperative agreements (three were awarded in FY 2004)
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assess the need for family planning services among all clients seen for STD clinical services. In addition, the study will evaluate the effectiveness of a reminder system that notifies staff of a person's eligibility to receive family planning services; and compare rates of STDs and unintended pregnancies among clients seen in the clinic.
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The project work will be performed in three stages. In Stage 1, the project will analyze family, individual, and community factors associated with the utilization of family planning services using data from several cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth.
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identify barriers and facilitators to serving male Latinos; (c) explore advantages and disadvantages of integrating men into sexual and reproductive health services for family planning agencies and for male
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Couples-Based Family Planning Services: Is There a Need? Grantee Organization: The Guttmacher Institute New York, NY 10038 Principal Investigator: Rachel Jones, Ph.D.
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Social dynamics to be examined are: relationships with family; relationships with peers; culture; religion; and relationships with sexual partners. The relevant environmental factors will include: characteristics of family planning services, access to family planning services, and utilization of family planning services.
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Project Period: 9/01/2006–08/31/2007 Project Description: The research goal for this project is to explore, assess, and begin to address possible racial/ethnic disparities in chlamydia (CT) screening, prevalence and prevention services in Title X family planning clinics using existing data sets.
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, will be used to analyze whether group differences exist in service utilization, quality, and contraceptive use and to assess the role of Title X clinics in reducing differences. The IOM's 1993 Model of Access to Personal Health Care Services, adapted to reproductive health care, will guide the study.
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to compare the level of concern about the ability to refer family planning clients for needed primary and specialty care between clinicians who do and do not provide family planning care to clients with Medicaid coverage for these services. Family planning providers who participate in and clients who are enrolled in Medicaid family planning demonstration programs in Alabama and Arkansas are the populations under study.
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Improving Services for Latina Women and Their Partners: A CAPACITIES Approach Grantee Organization: Georgetown University, Department of OB/GYN 3900 Reservoir Road, NW Washington, DC 20007 Principal Investigator: Rebecka Lundgren, M.P.H. Project Period: 09/30/2005–09/29/2008 Project Description: This intervention research, which will be conducted collaboratively by the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, and Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties,
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Couples and Contraceptive Practice Grantee Organization: Family Planning Council 260 S Broad Street, Suite 1000 Philadelphia, PA 19102-5076 Principal Investigator: Paul Whittaker, Ph.D.
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How is financing for family planning changing? What return do we get for our investment in publicly funded family planning services?
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Project Period: 09/30/2004–09/29/2009 Project Description: The proposed project, which addresses a significant gap in our knowledge about quality of family planning services in this country, will be conducted by a team of researchers from Johns H opkins University in collaboration with a small network of Title X grantees. The project has the following aims: to develop approaches that assess the quality of service delivery; to develop a toolbox of approaches to improve quality of services; and to test interventions aimed at quality improvement.
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The first model will evaluate an innovative program that involves initiating family planning education for incarcerated women and then arranging post-release connection to a clinic for family planning services. The second model will examine a model in which education and contraceptive methods are offered to women prior to their release from prison and then arranging a post-release connection to a clinic for family planning and reproductive health care.
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Barriers to Family Planning Services Among Mexican Immigrants in California: Gender, Power and Culture Grantee Organization: University of California, San Francisco Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences 3333 California Street, #315 San Francisco, CA 94118 Principal Investigator: Catherine Maternowska, Ph.D., M.P.H. Project Period: 1/2001–12/2002 Project Description: This project focuses on understanding the complex sociocultural factors that influence reproduction and the use of family planning services in Mexican immigrant communities.
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CAI will develop cost of service reports providing in-depth information on the impact of changing costs, as well as other contributing factors, affecting the delivery of family planning services. Fiscal year 1983–2000 Awards Service Delivery Improvement grants for FY 1983–2000 are listed below, organized according to the following topic areas: increasing cost of family planning services, family planning client behavior, adolescent family planning clients, male family planning clients, targeting of family planning services, organization/management of family planning services, role of private physician, natural family planning, infertility services, counseling services, and cross-national studies.
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CAI will develop cost of service reports providing in-depth information on the impact of changing costs, as well as other contributing factors, affecting the delivery of family planning services. Family Planning Client Behavior Assessing Family Planning and Reproductive Health Needs and Services in the United States Grantee Organization: The Alan Guttmacher Institute 120 Wall Street New York, NY 10005 Principal Investigator: Jacqueline E
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to disseminate information and analyses that will enable policy makers, providers and other individuals and organizations to improve the quality and reach of reproductive health and family planning services in the United States. Improving Condom Use for STD Prevention by Clinic Patients Grantee Organization: Family Health Council of Central PA 1017 Mumma Road P.O.
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behavioral compliance outcomes associated with the use of each of the three methods. Family Planning in Clinic Discontinuation Grantee Organization: Family Planning Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania 260 South Broad Street, Suite 1900 Philadelphia, PA 19102-3865 Investigator: Roberta Herceg-Baron, M.A.
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Project Period: 10/1983–9/1986 Project Description: This project surveyed 1,000 low-income women in need of family planning services in north central Florida to examine the utility of the expectancy-value model in predicting both choice of provider (private physicians, family planning clinics, or other) and change in providers over an 18-month period.
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Rural Family Planning Services: An Interactionist View Grantee Organization: Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research Cornell University 123 Day Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Principal Investigator: Burton Mindick, Ph.D. Project Period: 1/1985–12/1986 Project Description: This project will look at how person and clinic situation interrelate to influence family planning effectiveness in a rural setting.
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drawn from Title X clinics in Region X, this project investigated the prevalence of sexual abuse (nonvoluntary sexual experience) among the family planning clinics and examined the relationship between sexual abuse and contraceptive compliance and sexually transmitted disease prevention.
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The specific aim of this project, which involved a sample of 500 sexually-active adolescent males aged 11–21 from Title X clinics, was to provide answers to the following questions: (1) Can the attitudes and behaviors of sexually active males be changed either through an educational program or the availability of free condoms?
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Belmont Portland, OR 97215 Principal Investigator: Ross Danielson, Ph.D. Project Period: 10/1984–9/1987 Project Description: This project tested the impact on adolescent males' subsequent sexual and contraceptive activity of providing reproductive health information and counseling in combination with the delivery of routine medical care in a HMO setting.
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" Specific comparisons were made between males who visit the health department primarily to receive condoms and males who attend the scheduled family planning visits of their female partners. Targeting of Family Planning Services Improving Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for Individuals with Limited English Proficiency Grantee Organization: Center for Health Training 1809 7th Ave., Suite 400 Seattle, WA 98101-1341 Principal Investigator: David Fine, Ph.D.
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Enhanced Family Planning in an STD Clinic to Improve STD Services Grantee Organization: Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore, MD 21305 Principal Investigator: Emily Erbelding, M.D., M.P.H. Project Period: 9/2001–9/2003 Project Description: This project will evaluate the impact of enhanced STD outreach worker services on the reproductive health outcomes in a cohort of women receiving STD care and contraceptive care in inner city STD clinics.
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The first model will evaluate an innovative program that involves initiating family planning education for incarcerated women and then arranging post release connection to a clinic for family planning services. The second model will examine a model in which education and contraceptive methods are offered to women prior to their release from prison and then arranging a post release connection to a clinic for family planning and reproductive health care.
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Barriers to Family Planning Services Among Mexican Immigrants in California: Gender, Power, and Culture Grantee Organization: University of California, San Francisco Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences 3333 California Street, #315 San Francisco, CA 94118 Principal Investigator: Catherine Maternowska, Ph.D., M.P.H. Project Period: 1/2001–12/2002 Project Description: This project focuses on understanding the complex sociocultural factors that influence reproduction and the use of family planning services in Mexican immigrant communities.
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Data from official records and interviews of refugees were used to describe fertility patterns, family planning attitudes, and service utilization. Cross-cultural barriers to utilization of family planning services were analyzed, and a cost-benefit analysis was conducted to identify cost-efficient models for the delivery of family planning services to monolingual, cost-cultural groups.
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analyzing the current status of the nation's public family planning providers, including numbers and locations of service sites, staffing, services offered and fees charged; (b) estimating the need for publicly funded family planning services; (c)
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An Assessment of Family Planning Service Delivery in South Carolina Grantee Organization: South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control 2600 Bull Street Columbia, SC 29201 Principal Investigator: Harold D Gabel, M.D.
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Effects of the Integration Model on Family Planning Programs Grantee Organization: The Center for Health Training 400 Tower Building 1809 7th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 Principal Investigator: Susan DeLisle, M.P.H. Project Period: 10/1986–11/1987 Project Description: This project studied how integration of family planning services with other services affects the character of family planning service provision.
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Family Planning Services for Economically Disadvantaged Women: Utilization, Cost, and Patient Satisfaction Grantee Organization: University of Southern California School of Medicine Department of Medical Education KAM Room 200 1975 Zonal Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90033 Principal Investigator: Robert C Mendenhall, Ph.D.
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Project Period: 9/1987–8/1988 Project Description: The aim of this study was to identify possible stumbling blocks to wider utilization of NFP, particularly in Title X settings. Specifically, it assessed the extent to which knowledge of and attitudes toward NFP on the part of family planning clinic administrators, clinic service providers, and physicians in private settings affect the availability of NFP services, controlling for program characteristics, client characteristics, and the sociodemographic background of respondents.
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Project Period: 1/1/1988–6/30/1991 Project Description: The objective of this project was to evaluate the potential of a computerized contraceptive counseling aid to improve Title X family planning services for women under age 20. Specifically, it evaluated (1)
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Strategies of Counseling and Follow-up in Family Planning Clinics Grantee Organization: Family Planning Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania 260 South Broad Street Suite 1900 Philadelphia, PA 19102-3865 Principal Investigator: Kay A Armstrong, M.S.
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, Canada, and the Netherlands. Family Planning Services Delivery: Danish Experience Grantee Organization: Transnational Family Research Institute 8307 Whitman Drive Bethesda, MD 20817 Principal Investigator: Henry P
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2007. Patterns of men's use of sexual and reproductive health services: Results from cycle 6 of the national sur vey of family growth.
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4. Strengthening the Capacity of Family Planning Agencies to Improve the Quality of Family Planning Services Grantee: Johns Hopkins University Becker, D., M
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6. Assessing Family Planning and Reproductive Health Needs and Services in the United States Grantee: Alan Guttmacher Institute Donovan, P
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2004. The availability and use of publicly funded family planning clinics: U.S.
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OPA collaborates with other federal agencies in efforts related to family planning and reproductive health. OPA is one of the major funding contributors to the NSFG, which is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
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