[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7454-7455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02678]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: HHS-OS-20987-30D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, has submitted an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for a new collection. 
Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be 
provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public on 
this ICR during the review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before March 10, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or via 
facsimile to (202) 395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information Collection Clearance 
staff, [email protected] or (202) 690-6162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the Information Collection Request Title 
and document identifier HHS-OS-20987-30D for reference.

Information Collection Request Title: Pre-Test of Instruments of 
Psychosocial Care for the Treatment of Adults With PTSD

    Abstract: ASPE is requesting to pretest a survey that measures 
quality of psychotherapy for adults with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 
(PTSD) in outpatient treatment settings, defined in terms of the 
concordance with evidence-based strategies. Despite enormous 
expenditures and remarkable breakthroughs in treatment, there is a 
clear gap between what is known about effective treatments for 
individuals diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and 
what clinicians actually implement in treatment settings. A quality 
improvement initiative that measures clinicians' use of evidence based 
treatment and promotes feedback to providers from the consumers' 
perspective may enhance the adoption of evidence based services. This 
could ultimately improve the quality of care and consumer health 
outcomes.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Quality measures of the 
treatment of PTSD in concordance with evidence-based methods do not 
currently exist and could be used to reduce this gap. ASPE, in 
partnership with NIMH, has undertaken this project to pretest 3 surveys 
(a clinician, clinical supervisor, and consumer measure) of the 
delivery of evidence based psychotherapies to adults with PTSD. The 
current data collection is scheduled to occur only once, over a 6 month 
time period in summer 2014 through the winter of 2014 at a total of 6 
behavioral health care sites.
    Likely Respondents: Respondents are clinicians, clinician's 
supervisors and consumers.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information, and to

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transmit or otherwise disclose the information. The total annual burden 
hours estimated for this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
                    Form name                       respondents    responses per   response (in        hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Clinician (demographics questionnaire)..........              36               1            5/60               3
Clinician Supervisor (demographics                             6               1            5/60               1
 questionnaire).................................
Clinician (clinician survey)....................              36               3           10/60              18
Clinician Supervisor (survey)...................               6              18           10/60              18
Consumer........................................             108               1           10/60              18
Site Coordinator................................               6               1              96             576
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............             634
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Darius Taylor,
Deputy, Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-02678 Filed 2-6-14; 8:45 am]
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