[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 242 (Friday, December 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79008-79009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-31737]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Study of Substance Abuse 
doc.com Module Project

SUMMARY: 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 National Institute on Drug 
Abuse (NIDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish 
periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.
    Proposed Collection: Title: Study of Substance Abuse doc.com Module 
Project. Type of Information Collection Request: NEW. Need and Use of 
Information Collection: This is a request for a two-year generic 
clearance to a conduct research study to assess the efficacy of a 
specific interactive web-based teaching module in the field of 
professional education of healthcare providers. This online module was 
developed as a work product by the same team of investigators from 
Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) and University of 
Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Penn Med) under a contract as part of 
NIDA's Center of Excellence (CoE) for Physician Information. This 
project will assess efficacy of the NIDA CoE online teaching module 
with educational interventions in enhancing: (1) The knowledge of 
healthcare professionals about substance use disorders; (2) attitudes 
of healthcare professionals toward patients with these disorders and 
(3) communication skills in providing assessment and referral to 
treatment for patients who abuse substances. The overall goal of this 
project is to assess the efficacy of an educational intervention, which 
should result in an increase in the involvement of primary care 
providers in the screening, managing and, when appropriate, referring 
patients with substance use disorders. This effort is made according to 
Executive Order 12862, which directs Federal agencies that provide 
significant services directly to the public to survey customers to 
determine the kind and quality of services they want and their level of 
satisfaction with existing services.
    The project will utilize a randomized cluster controlled trial 
design that compares the group that receives educational exposure to 
the set of new educational interventions (NIDA online teaching module 
plus educational adjuncts) to a control group that receives exposure to 
the standard medical school or residency educational curriculum related 
to substance use disorders. The project will use a repeated measures 
approach to assess the educational intervention's efficacy (i.e., 
individuals will take surveys before and after exposure to the 
intervention or to the control curriculum). The outcomes of the study 
will be based on changes in knowledge, attitudes and indirect measures 
of communication skills before and after the intervention, compared to 
the changes in these parameters in the control group.
    Frequency of Response: This project will be conducted annually or 
biennially. Affected Public: Individuals and businesses. Type of 
Respondents: medical students and resident physicians. The annual 
reporting burden is calculated as follows: Estimated Total Annual 
Number of Respondents: 708; Estimated Number of Responses per 
Respondent: 4 for medical students; 2 for resident physicians; Average 
Burden Hours per Response: 0.17. Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours 
Requested: 377; There are no Capital Costs to report. There are no 
Operating or Maintenance Costs to report. The estimated annualized 
burden is summarized below.

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                                                      Estimated number
          Respondents             Estimated number     of surveys per       Average burden      Estimated total
                                     of subjects           subject         hours per survey      burden hours
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Medical Students...............                 400                   4                 0.17                 272
Primary Care Resident                           308                   2                 0.17                 105
 Physicians....................
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    Total......................                 708  ..................  ...................                 377
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    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (2) the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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.
    FOR FURTHER INFROMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the information collection 
plans, contact Elisabeth Davis, Project Officer, National Institute on 
Drug Abuse, NIDA/NIH/DHHS, 6001 Executive Boulevard, MSC 9591, 
Bethesda, MD 20852; or call non-toll-free number (301) 594-6317; fax 
(301) 480-2485; or e-mail your request, including your address to: 
[email protected].
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 60 days 
of the date of this publication.


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    Dated: December 9, 2010.
Mary Affeldt,
Executive Officer, (OM Director) NIDA.
[FR Doc. 2010-31737 Filed 12-16-10; 8:45 am]
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