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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2020 May 18;33(3):316–325. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2020.1764473

Table 2.

Staff and provider responses regarding trauma-specific services (n=31).

Trauma-Specific Services Number of Participants Average a,b
Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly Agree Providers and Staff (N=31) Providers (N=14) Staff (N=17)
The Center provides opportunities for care coordination for services not provided within that organization. 2 1 16 8 2.1 1.7 2.5
The Center educates patients about traumatic stress and triggers. 2 5 9 5 1.8 0.9 2.3
The Center has access to a clinician (medical caregiver) with expertise in trauma and trauma support services (on staff or available for regular consultation). 2 2 9 9 2.1 1.7 2.5
The Center provides opportunities for patients to receive a variety of services (e.g., housing, employment, legal and educational advocacy, mental health and substance abuse services). 0 0 15 15 2.5 2.4 2.6
When mental health services are needed (i.e. individual therapy, group therapy and/or family therapy), the Center refers patients to counseling. 0 0 15 16 2.5 2.4 2.6
The Center provides opportunities for patients to express themselves in creative nonverbal ways (i.e. art, theater, dance, movement, music). 0 2 14 17 2.2 2.1 2.3
Written safety plans (i.e. what a patient and staff* members will do if the patient feels threatened by another person outside of the Center) are incorporated into patients’ individual goals and plans. 2 8 6 6 1.7 0.9 2.3
Each patient has an individualized written crisis prevention plan (i.e. for how to help manage stress and feel supported) which includes a list of triggers, strategies and responses which are helpful and those that are not helpful and a list of persons the patient can go to for support. 4 8 6 4 1.5 0.8 2.1
*

The term “staff” in the quantitative assessments was defined as inclusive of both center providers and staff. Participants were provided this definition as part of the introduction to the assessment.

a

Answer options ranged from 0=strongly disagree to 3=strongly agree

b

Shading indicates the mean is ≥2, suggesting availability of TIC services