[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 160 (Monday, August 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48222-48223]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19052]


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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.
    Project: The Coordinating Center to Support State Incentive Grants 
to Build

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Capacity for Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion (OMB No. 0930-
0271)--Revision
    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services has funded a Data Collection 
and Analysis for the Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion Grant 
Program. This contract is an evaluation of SAMHSA's State Incentive 
Grants to Build Capacity for Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion. 
These grants are designed to promote the implementation and evaluation 
of best practice approaches to reducing the use of restraint and 
seclusion in mental health facilities. Grantees consist of 8 sites 
(state mental health agencies), all of which will be implementing 
interventions in multiple facilities (a total of 21 facilities). These 
include facilities serving adults and those serving children and/or 
adolescents, with various subgroups such as forensic and sexual 
offender populations.
    With input from multiple experts in the field of restraint and 
seclusion and alternatives to restraint and seclusion, the project 
created a common core of data collection instruments that will be used 
for this cross-site project. The facilities will complete three 
different instruments over a 3-year time period: (1) Facility/Program 
Characteristics Inventory (information about type of facilities, 
characteristics of persons served, staffing patterns, and unit specific 
data); (2) Inventory of Seclusion and Restraint Reduction 
Interventions; (3) Seclusion and Restraint Event Data Matrix (data 
about restraint and seclusion rates within facilities and units). Data 
will be submitted by the sites electronically via a secured Web site.
    The Facility/Program Characteristics Inventory and Inventory of 
Seclusion and Restraint Reduction Intervention will be collected 
annually. The Seclusion and Restraint Event Data Matrix will be 
collected monthly.
    The resulting data will help to identify the: (1) Number of 
programs adopting best practices involving alternative approaches to 
restraint and seclusion; and (2) program's impact of reducing restraint 
and seclusion use and adoption of alternative practices. The estimated 
maximal annual response burden to collect this information is by grant 
year.

                       Table 1. Estimates of Maximal Annualized Hour Burden, by Grant Year
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                                                                                                   Total annual
           Instrument                 No. of       Responses per       Total       Average hours      burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses     per response       (hours)
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Grant Year 1
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Facility/Program Characteristic               21               1              21               2              42
 Inventory......................
Inventory of Restraint and                    21               1              21               8             168
 Seclusion Reduction
 Interventions..................
Seclusion and Restraint Event
 Data Matrix....................                            Not given during Year 1 \a\
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    Total Annual................              21  ..............  ..............  ..............             210
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Grant Year 2
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Facility/Program Characteristic
 Inventory......................                              Not given during Year 2
Inventory of Restraint and                    21               1              21               8             168
 Seclusion Reduction
 Interventions..................
Seclusion and Restraint Event                 21              29             609               8           4,872
 Data Matrix....................
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    Total Annual................              21  ..............  ..............  ..............           5,040
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Grant Year 3
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Facility/Program Characteristic
 Inventory......................                              Not given during Year 3
Inventory of Restraint and                    21               2              42               8             336
 Seclusion Reduction
 Interventions..................
Seclusion and Restraint Event                 21              18             378               8           3,024
 Data Matrix....................
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    Total Annual................              21  ..............  ..............  ..............          3,360
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\a\ This instrument may be given during Year 1 pending timely OMB approval. If this is the case, some of the
  responses allotted to Year 2 may be shifted to Year 1 in order to lessen the burden to respondent burden.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by September 17, 2008 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: August 11, 2008.
Elaine Parry,
Acting Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. E8-19052 Filed 8-15-08; 8:45 am]
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