[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 15 (Friday, January 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3376-3377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1383]


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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.
[FR Doc. 04-1383 Filed 1-22-04; 8:45 am]
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