AEGiS-APPJ: Retaining Members in California's County-Level HIV-Prevention Community Planning Groups

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Retaining Members in California's County-Level HIV-Prevention Community Planning Groups

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 17, no. 4 (Winter 2002) 153-160
Grace L. Reynolds, Dennis G. Fisher, Jennifer A. Klahn, and Biren Shukla

The objective of this project was to study how well HIV-prevention-planning local implementation groups (LIGs) in 24 counties in California retained their members. We stratified LIGs by whether their co-chair perceived that her or his group had trouble retaining its members. Of the 24 groups, nine LIGs whose co-chairs perceived that they had problems retaining members and eight LIGs that did not, provided copies of their minutes and meeting sign-in sheets for July 1999 through June 2001. The final data set included 3,820 attendance records for 996 unduplicated individuals for these 17 LIGs. The median participation period for LIG members was 63 days; the median period of participation overall was 175.51 days. Survival analysis revealed significant differences in participation between those LIGs that were perceived as having trouble with retaining members and those that did not on the Log-Rank chi square test (chi2(1) = 10.51, p < .0012.)

As the median participation period was 63 days, and mean participation of members was found to be approximately six months, it may be advantageous for LIGs to present the materials necessary to the effective planning their functioning on a regular basis, so that their functioning is not negatively affected by high turnover in membership.
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