[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 149 (Friday, August 3, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43289-43290]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15126]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities Under Emergency Review 
by the Office of Management and Budget

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) has submitted the following request (see below) for emergency 
OMB review under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 
OMB approval has been requested by October 12, 2007. A copy of the 
information collection plans may be obtained by calling the SAMHSA 
Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
    Title: 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health--(OMB No. 0930-
0110).
    OMB Number: 0930-0110.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
    The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), formerly the 
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), is a survey of the 
civilian, non-institutionalized population of the United States 12 
years old and older. The data are used to determine the prevalence of 
use of tobacco products, alcohol, illicit substances, and illicit use 
of prescription drugs. The results are used by SAMHSA, ONDCP, Federal 
government agencies, and other organizations and researchers to 
establish policy, direct program activities, and better allocate 
resources.
    This Federal Register notice is revised to reflect additional 
information that will be collected for the 2008 NSDUH. At the request 
of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), additional 
questions are being developed to measure marijuana consumption in the 
general population. This information could be useful in evaluating drug 
control programs, as discussed in ``Informing America's Policy on 
Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us,'' a report by the 
National Research Council.
    Since the first Federal Register notice (published on May 3, 2007), 
a condensed version of the 16-item World Health Organization Disability 
Assessment Scale (WHO-DAS) has also been proposed for the Mental Health 
Module. A series of analyses was performed which examined the 
measurement properties of the 16-item scale with the goal of reducing 
the scale to a condensed version. [Item Response Analyses of the World 
Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS), SAMHSA, 
2007 (unpublished)] These analyses resulted in an 8-item scale which 
captures the information represented in the full scale. The questions 
for recruiting respondents for the follow-up clinical interview have 
also been revised to include a request for the respondent's e-mail 
address.
    The Notice that was published on May 3, 2007 included the following 
information for the 2008 NSDUH. Additional questions are being planned 
regarding suicide ideation and impairment from mental health issues. An 
embedded split-sample study is being planned to determine which one of 
two mental health disability scales to include in future NSDUH survey 
years. The two disability scales will be evaluated by using the SCID-I/
NP as a follow-up interview with a subsample of respondents.
    Other questionnaire changes include deletion of questions about 
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Katrina and Rita, adoption of a reduced set of income questions which 
were tested in 2006 and 2007, and routing of Adderall, Ambien, 
Ketamine, DMT, AMT, ``Foxy'' and salvia divinorum users into the 
questions on drug dependence and abuse.
    As with all NSDUH/NHSDA surveys conducted since 1999, the sample 
size of the survey for 2008 will be sufficient to permit prevalence 
estimates for each of the fifty States and the District of Columbia. 
The respondent burden will remain at 60 minutes per interview. The 
total annual burden estimate is shown below:

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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                    Activity                         Number of     responses per     hours per     Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      respondent         hours
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Household Screening.............................         182,250               1            .083          15,127
Interview.......................................          67,500               1           1.0            67,500
Clinical Follow-up Certification................             150               1           1.0               150
Clinical Follow-up..............................           1,500               1           1.0             1,500
Screening Verification..........................           5,494               1            .067             368
Interview Verification..........................          10,125               1            .067             678
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    Total.......................................         182,250  ..............  ..............          85,323
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    Emergency approval is being requested because ONDCP has asked 
SAMHSA to add questions to measure marijuana consumption in the general 
population. Because of these additional questions, this Federal 
Register notice is a revision from the one that was published on May 3, 
2007.
    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
John Kraemer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503; due to potential delay 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 31, 2007.
Elaine Parry,
Acting Director, Office of Program Services.
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