[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2058-2059]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-209]


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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 (SAMHSA) 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 (240) 276-1243.
    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

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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: Screening, Brief Intervention, Brief Treatment and 
Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Cross-Site Evaluation--New

    SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is conducting 
a cross-site external evaluation of the impact of programs of 
screening, brief intervention (BI), brief treatment (BT) and referral 
to treatment on patients presenting at various health care delivery 
units with a continuum of severity of substance use. CSAT's SBIRT 
program is a cooperative agreement grant program designed to help six 
States and one Tribal Council expand the continuum of care available 
for substance misuse and use disorders. The program includes screening, 
BI, BT and referrals for persons at risk for dependence on alcohol or 
drugs. The primary purpose of the evaluation is to study the extent to 
which the modified models of SBIRT being implemented by the grantees 
expand the continuum of care available for treatment of substance use 
disorders.
    A survey will be used to collect data from patients at the 
participating grantee health care delivery units at baseline using a 
computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) and at a six-month follow-
up primarily via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). A 
second survey will be administered to practitioners who are delivering 
SBIRT services using CAPI. The patient survey is composed of questions 
on substance use behaviors and other outcome measures such as 
productivity, absenteeism, health status, arrests and accidents. The 
practitioner survey is designed to evaluate the implementation of 
proposed SBIRT models by measuring their penetration and practitioners' 
willingness to adopt. Furthermore, the survey will document moderating 
factors related to practitioner and health care delivery unit 
characteristics.

                              Total Burden Hours for the Cross-Site Patient Survey
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                                                                    Number of        Average       Total burden
              Instrument/activity                   Number of     responses per    burden per       hours per
                                                   respondents     respondent       response        collection
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Cross-Site Patient Survey:
    Baseline Data Collection...................          10,500               1             .25          2,625
    6-Month Follow-up Data Collection (80% of             8,400               1             .25          2,100
     baseline).................................
    Cross-Site Practitioner Survey.............             270               1             .25             67.5
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        Total..................................          19,170  ..............  ..............          4,793
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 7-1044, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments 
should be received within 60 days of this notice.

     Dated: January 4, 2006.
Anna Marsh,
Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. E6-209 Filed 1-11-06; 8:45 am]
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