[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 77 (Thursday, April 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9720]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Study of Substance Abuse doc.com Module 
Project

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) 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.
    This proposed information collection was previously published in 
the Federal Register in Volume 75, No. 242, pages 79008-79009, on 
December 17, 2010 and allowed 60 days for public comment. No public 
comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an 
additional 30 days for public comment.
    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 clearance to 
conduct a 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 Centers 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 of healthcare professionals 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 
with 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
                                                     Estimated       number of        Average        Estimated
                   Respondents                       number of      surveys per    burden hours    total burden
                                                     subjects         subject       per survey         hours
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Medical Students................................             400               4            0.17             272
Primary Care Resident Physicians................             308               2            0.17             105
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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.
    Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions 
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding 
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be 
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory 
Affairs, OIRA [email protected]v or by fax to 202-395-6974, 
Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instruments, contact: Elisabeth Davis, MPH, NIH/NIDA/OSPC, 6001 
Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20824-9591, 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.

    Dated: March 23, 2011.
Mary Affeldt,
Executive Officer, (OM Director) NIDA.
[FR Doc. 2011-9720 Filed 4-20-11; 8:45 am]
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