[Federal Register: April 7, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 66)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed
collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration will publish periodic summaries of proposed
projects. To request more information on the proposed projects or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the SAMHSA
Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-7978.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology.
Proposed Project: Practitioner Services Network Initiative--New--
SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), plans to obtain
information about the providers, care and characteristics of clients
with substance abuse disorders and related co-morbidities that receive
treatment from practitioners in private practice and organizational
settings. This information is needed to complement available
information about the substance abuse treatment provided in
institutional and publicly funded settings, in order to more completely
describe the full range and nature of substance abuse problems
affecting the nation.
The CSAT Practitioner Services Network initiative provides support
to six of the largest behavioral health associations in the nation to
design and implement surveys using representative samples of their
members and the clients they serve. The membership of the selected
Associations collectively represent a significant proportion of the
behavioral health professionals in the country. Two of these
associations, the American Psychiatric Association and the American
Psychological Association, have separately functioning internet-based
PSN infrastructures; from these two groups CSAT will be able to
purchase reports based on the data they have already collected.
For four other associations (i.e., the American Association for
Marriage and Family Therapy; the American Counseling Association;
NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals; and the National
Association of Social Workers), CSAT will sponsor new data collection
efforts to provide a core set of data elements to be collected in their
upcoming membership surveys. The four Associations conduct periodic
sample surveys of their memberships through their individual
Practitioner Services Network infrastructures and will incorporate a
common set of specific substance-abuse questions that are of importance
to CSAT into these studies. CSAT will sponsor data collection and
purchase, from each Association, a report that addresses the
characteristics of practitioners who may be expected to encounter
clients with substance abuse disorders, the characteristics of clients
with behavioral
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and/or substance abuse disorders, and the nature of services rendered
to these clients.
The reports to be purchased by CSAT will be based on the
Associations' surveys of a representative sample of 400 of their
members. Practitioners in the sample will abstract demographic and
encounter-specific data from two of their current patients' records. No
client identifying information will be collected as part of this study.
Data collection methods will include mailed surveys with mailed
reminders and follow-up phone calls in order to achieve a target
response rate of 80 percent.
This information will complement CSAT's and SAMHSA's existing data
collection efforts and provide a more comprehensive view of the
populations in need of services, the prevalence of substance abuse and
mental health co-morbidities, and the qualifications and training of
private practitioners who serve these clients.
The burden estimates are summarized in the following table.
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Estimated
Estimated number Responses per completion time Total burden
of respondents respondent (hours) hours
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1,600 1 .33 532
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Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: April 1, 2003.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-8323 Filed 4-4-03; 8:45 am]
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