[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28705-28706]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-14218]


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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: Garrett Lee Smith Campus Case Studies Funded Through the 
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention 
Programs--New

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is conducting up to 
six campus case studies with Garrett Lee Smith Memorial (GLS) Suicide 
Prevention and Early Intervention Campus Program grantees. The GLS 
Campus Case Studies (CCS) build upon campuses' existing local 
evaluation being implemented and funded through the GLS grant program. 
The goal of the CCS is to understand how a public health approach is 
successfully applied as a model for campus suicide prevention efforts, 
and will explore, in a systematic manner: The suicide prevention 
related infrastructures and supports (e.g., clinical and non-clinical) 
that exist on up to six selected GLS-funded campuses; the various 
student-level factors that are related to suicide prevention efforts 
(e.g., protective factors, coping strategies, social norms, and 
facilitators and barriers to student access and receipt of behavioral 
healthcare); campus interdepartmental collaboration and the 
relationship between various efforts to promote student mental health 
and wellness; and the extent to which the campus infrastructures and 
supports promote and address these factors.
    The data collected through this project will contribute to the 
knowledge base regarding a successful model for suicide prevention that 
integrates multiple prevention programs targeting risk and protective 
behaviors which place students at risk for a host of negative mental 
and physical health outcomes correlated with suicide, including 
violence, stress, untreated depression and mental illness, and academic 
failure. The strategies targeting various populations on campus will 
also be discussed, as well as the campus policies and procedures which 
facilitate campus efforts related to mental health promotion and crisis 
response. The CCS design includes three data collection strategies: (1) 
Case study key informant interviews (CSIs); (2) focus groups with 
students, faculty, and staff; and (3) an Enhanced Module to the OMB-
approved Suicide Prevention Exposure, Awareness and Knowledge Survey--
Student Version (OMB No. 0930-0286) administered to a sample of 
students. Data collection is planned to commence in fall 2008. CCS 
activities will be implemented on up to six GLS-funded campuses.
    The following describes the specific data collection activities and 
the data collection instruments to be used, followed by a summary table 
of the number of respondents and the respondent burden:
     Enhanced Module for the SPEAKS. The Enhanced Module will 
be added to the OMB-approved Suicide Prevention Exposure, Awareness, 
and Knowledge Survey (SPEAKS)--Student Version (OMB No. 0930-0286). The 
Enhanced Module examines coping strategies, help-seeking behaviors, 
awareness of available mental health services, and risk and protective 
factors across the student population. Questions include the 
availability of resources to provide assistance to those at risk for 
suicide; the types of coping strategies they use when experiencing 
stress; from whom, if anyone, they would seek help; if they have dealt 
with mental health issues, sought help, and experienced trauma; and 
their use of protective factors. The Enhanced Module is Web-based and 
includes multiple-choice, Likert-scale, and yes/no questions. The 
Enhanced Module includes 16 items and will take approximately 10 
minutes to complete. The Enhanced Module will be administered at each 
campus once in conjunction with the SPEAKS--Student Version to a random 
sample of 200 students.
     Student Focus Group Moderator's Guide. This component will 
assess student risk and protective factors related to mental health, 
help-seeking behaviors, and knowledge of prevention activities on 
campus and their perceived effectiveness. This will help researchers 
more fully understand student-level factors in relation to population-
level factors addressed by the Enhanced Module for the SPEAKS. 
Questions address stressors that different groups of students face 
while in college, barriers to seeking help, attitudes and stigma 
related to seeking help, and the accessibility of the campus counseling 
center. Six of the following seven groups of students will participate 
in focus groups on each campus, as decided by the campus: (1) First-
year students, (2) athletes, (3) international students, (4) Lesbian, 
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) students, (5) Greek life 
students, (6) graduate students, and (7) residential advisors/peer 
educators. Recruitment will be conducted by campus project staff. Focus 
groups will include a maximum of 9 students. Thus, the total number of 
student focus group participants will not exceed 324. Groups will last 
approximately 90 minutes.
     Faculty/Staff Focus Group Moderator's Guide. The faculty 
and staff focus groups will assess the campus' approach to prevention, 
attitudes and stigma around student mental health and wellness on 
campus, campus infrastructure supports for students who need mental 
health help, and the

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general campus climate around mental health and wellness. Faculty and 
staff will also describe their knowledge of prevention activities on 
campus and their perceived effectiveness of these efforts. Local campus 
staff will recruit appropriate respondents for the faculty and staff 
focus groups to include a maximum of 9 respondents per group. The total 
number of participants will not exceed 162 and groups will last 
approximately 90 minutes.
     Case Study Key Informant Interviews (7 versions). The Case 
Study Key Informant Interviews (CSIs) include 7 qualitative interview 
versions: (1) Administrator, (2) Counseling Staff, (3) Coalition 
Member--Faculty, (4) Prevention Staff, (5) Case Finder, (6) Campus 
Police, and (7) Student Leader. Local project staff will be responsible 
for identifying appropriate respondents for each CSI version and 
scheduling the interview to occur during site visits by the case study 
team. A total of 14 interviews will be conducted during each campus 
site visit (a total of up to 192 interviews). The case study team from 
Macro International Inc. will be responsible for administering the 
interviews and is trained in qualitative interviewing. Fourteen 
individuals from each of the campus sites will be selected as key 
informants to participate in the CSIs in the first and third stages of 
the GLS Campus Case Studies, for a total of 64 respondents. Questions 
on the CSIs include whether respondents are aware of suicide prevention 
activities, what the campus culture is, related to suicide prevention, 
and what specific efforts are in place to prevent suicide among the 
campus population. Items are formatted as open-ended and semi-
structured questions. The CSIs include 16 to 21 items and will take 
approximately 60 minutes to complete. On the second site visit, the 
case study team will incorporate preliminary findings from the case 
studies in the interviews, which may be modified to some extent to 
collect more comprehensive information and gather feedback from local 
key informants surrounding the context of the preliminary findings. The 
CSIs for the second site visit will last 60 minutes.
    The average annual respondent burden is estimated below. This 
project is scheduled to be completed in 12 months; thus, the table 
reflects the total burden for one year, the project length. The 
estimate reflects the total annual respondents for the project (at 
which time the CCS would conclude), the average annual number of 
respondents, the average annual number of responses, the time it will 
take for each response, and the average burden.

                           Total and Annual Averages: Respondents, Responses and Hours
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                                                                     Number of
                  Measure name                       Number of     responses per      Hours/         Response
                                                    respondents     respondent       response         burden
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Enhanced Module.................................           1,200               1            0.17             204
Focus Group--Student Version....................             324               1             1.5             486
Focus Group--Faculty Version....................             108               1             1.5             162
Focus Group--Staff Version......................              54               1             1.5              81
Interview--Student Leader Version...............              12               1               1              12
Interview--Case Finder Version..................               6               1               1               6
Interview--Faculty Version......................              12               1               1              12
Interview--Campus Police Version................              12               1               1              12
Interview--Counseling Staff Version.............              12               1               1              12
Interview--Prevention Staff Version.............              18               1               1              18
Interview--Administrator Version................              12               1               1              12
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    Total.......................................           1,770  ..............  ..............           1,017
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by July 17, 2009 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: June 8, 2009.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. E9-14218 Filed 6-16-09; 8:45 am]
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