[Federal Register: January 23, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 15)]
[Notices]
[Page 3376-3377]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Comment Request
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects (Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, as amended, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed
projects being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the proposed
project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft
instruments, call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is 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: Telephone Survey of Public Opinion Regarding Various
Issues Related to Organ and Tissue Donation (NEW)
The Division of Transplantation (DoT), Special Programs Bureau
(SPB), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is planning
to conduct a telephone survey of public knowledge, perceptions,
opinion, and behaviors related to organ donation. Two key missions of
the DoT are (1) to provide oversight for the Organ Procurement and
Transplantation Network and policy development related to organ
donation and transplantation and (2) to implement efforts to increase
public knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to organ and tissue
donation. With a constantly growing deficit between the number of
Americans needing donor organs, (currently exceeding 83,000) and the
annual number of donors (12,795 in 2002), increasing the American
public's willingness to donate becomes increasingly critical. Effective
education campaigns need to be based on knowledge of the public's
attitudes and perceptions about, and perceived impediments to, organ
donation. The last national survey of public attitudes and perceptions
of organ donation was conducted in 1993.
The purpose of this study is to obtain current information on
public attitudes and perceptions of organ donation and transplantation
of the general public and various population subgroups. The survey will
measure issues such as level of public knowledge about donation, public
intent to donate, impediments to public intent to donate, living
donation, presumed consent, and financial incentives for donation.
Demographic information also will be collected. The sample will consist
of 2,500 adults, will oversample Asian, Hispanic, and African
Americans, and will be geographically representative of the United
States. Computer-assisted telephone interviews will be conducted in the
English, Spanish, and Mandarin languages. The survey will replicate a
number of questions asked in the 1993 survey and also will include new
items, some of which will ask about untried methods to increase
donation. In addition to being useful to the DoT, results of this
survey also will be of considerable assistance to the transplant
community and to the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Organ
Transplantation (ACOT) as it fulfills its charge to advise the
Secretary of Health and Human Services on the numerous and often
controversial issues related to donation and transplantation. In its
first meeting, the ACOT suggested such a survey to gather information
to inform both public education efforts and policy decisions on the
issue of organ donation.
The estimated burden is as follows:
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Annual
Number of frequency Total Hours per Total
respondents per annual response burden
response responses hours
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Telephone Survey............................... 2,500 1 2,500 .2 500
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Total...................................... 2,500 ........... 2,500 ........... 500
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Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance
Officer, Room 14-45, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Dated: January 16, 2004.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
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