[Federal Register: March 25, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 57)]
[Notices]
[Page 15343-15344]
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: The Coordinating Center To Support State Incentive
Grants To Build Capacity for Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion--
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health
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Services has funded a Coordinating Center to Support State Incentive
Grants to Build Capacity for Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion.
The grants are designed to promote the implementation and evaluation of
best practice approaches to reducing the use of restraint and seclusion
in mental health facilities. Grantees consist of 8 sites (state mental
health agencies), most of which will be implementing interventions in
multiple facilities (a total of 76 facilities). These include
facilities serving adults and those serving children and/or
adolescents, with various subgroups such as forensic and sexual
offender populations.
With input from multiple experts in the field of restraint and
seclusion and alternatives to restraint and seclusion, the project
created a common core of data collection instruments that will be used
for this cross-site project. The facilities will complete four
different instruments: (1) Facility/Program Characteristics Inventory
(information about type of facilities, characteristics of persons
served, staffing patterns, and unit specific data); (2) Inventory of
Seclusion and Restraint Reduction Interventions; (3) Treatment Episode
Data (admission data for all clients/patients); and (4) Event Data
(data about the use of restraint and seclusion). Data will be submitted
by the sites electronically via a secured Web site. The Facility/
Program Characteristic Inventory and Inventory of Seclusion and
Restraint Reduction Intervention will be collected annually. The
Treatment Episode Data and Event Data will be collected monthly.
The resulting data will help to identify the: (1) Number of
programs adopting best practices involving alternative approaches to
restraint and seclusion; and (2) program's impact of reducing restraint
and seclusion use and adoption of alternative practices. The estimated
annual response burden to collect this information is as follows:
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Number of Responses/ Burden/response Annual burden
Instrument respondents respondent (hours) (hours)
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Facility/Program Characteristic 76 1 4 304
Inventory..............................
Inventory Of Seclusion And Restraint 76 1 2 152
Reduction Interventions................
Treatment Episode Data.................. 76 12 8 7,296
Event Data.............................. 76 12 8 7,296
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Total............................... 76 ................ ................ 15,048
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Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 7-1044, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20850. Written comments
should be received by May 24, 2005.
Dated: March 21, 2005.
Anna Marsh,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 05-5914 Filed 3-24-05; 8:45 am]
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