[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 144 (Thursday, July 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42646-42647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12028]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of information 
collection requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.

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

    SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment is conducting a 
cross-

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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, Brief 
Intervention, Brief Treatment and Referrals (BI, BT) 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.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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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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Patient Survey:                                   ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............
    Baseline Data Collection....................           3,600               1             .42           1,512
    6-Month Follow-up Data......................           2,880               1             .47           1,354
    Practitioner Survey.........................             261               1             .40             104
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        Total...................................           3,861  ..............  ..............           2,970
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by August 28, 2006 to: SAMHSA 
Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503; due to potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing of mail 
sent through the U.S. Postal Service, respondents are encouraged to 
submit comments by fax to: 202-395-6974.

    Dated: July 20, 2006.
Anna Marsh,
Director, Office of Program Services.
 [FR Doc. E6-12028 Filed 7-26-06; 8:45 am]
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