[Federal Register: January 25, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 15)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

 
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a list of information collection 
requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these documents, call 
the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-7978.

Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Providers as Information 
Customers

    New--Clinicians in the field of substance abuse treatment are 
increasingly turning to information products and services in managing 
the care of their patients, accessing new knowledge about treatment, 
and organizing their management systems. This study will help SAMHSA's 
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) to be better able to 
synthesize and disseminate knowledge by providing a representative 
assessment of the information products and services that currently 
exist in the substance abuse treatment industry.
    Program directors and clinicians will be surveyed in a brief 
telephone interview asking about their perceptions of information 
products and services that are currently being used, and their 
perceived need or interest in such new or improved products being 
developed and made available. The instrument that will be used to 
survey the providers and clinical staff will include a series of 
questions around a taxonomy and list of information products and 
services that are or might be used in the substance abuse treatment 
provider industry. A nationally representative target sample of 275 
facilities will be drawn, and interviews will be completed with program 
facility directors and clinical staff. The estimated annualized burden 
for a one-year data collection period is summarized below.

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                                                                     Number of    Average burden/
                                                     Number of      responses/        response     Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent         (hr.)           hours
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Facility Directors..............................             206               1             .33              68
Clinical Staff..................................             350               1             .25              88
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............             156
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Daniel Chenok, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: January 14, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-1548 Filed 1-22-99; 8:45 am]
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