[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32006-32007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14374]


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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

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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: National Mental Health Study Field Test--NEW

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) plans to conduct a methodological field test for a potential 
national mental health study, provisionally named the National Mental 
Health Study (NMHS). The NMHS will use mental disorder assessments 
similar to studies last conducted over a decade ago in the National 
Comorbidity Survey-Replication among adults in 2001-2003 and the 
National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent supplement among adolescents in 
2001-2002. SAMHSA is collaborating with the National Institute of 
Mental Health (NIMH) to implement this field test.
    The purpose of the NMHS Field Test is to test the procedures for a 
potential NMHS. The field test consists of three general components. 
The first component is sample selection using a household screener. The 
household screener will be used to determine eligibility of individuals 
and to make selections of individuals to recruit for participation in 
the second component. The second component consists of an in-person 
survey of the selected adult and adolescent respondents. The NMHS 
procedures vary somewhat between adults (aged 18 or older) and 
adolescents (aged 13 to 17). For all respondents, the in-person 
assessment (using either the adult or adolescent instrument) will be 
conducted primarily using audio computer-assisted self-interviewing 
(ACASI), with an emphasis on respondents completing the interview in a 
single session. In addition to the adolescent in-person assessment, 
parents/legal guardians of adolescent respondents will receive an 
additional web or phone interviews (the parent instrument). The final 
component consists of a telephone clinical reappraisal of a selected 
subgroup of adult and adolescent respondents, with an additional 
parent/guardian reporting for adolescents.
    The NMHS field test will include 1,200 English speaking 
respondents--900 adults and 300 adolescents in the United States 
excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Approximately 210 parents/legal guardians 
of adolescent respondents will complete an additional parent interview. 
A subsample of approximately 150 adult and adolescent respondents and 
50 parent respondents will complete a telephone-based clinical 
reappraisal follow-up interview. In addition, a subsample of completed 
screening and interview cases will be re-contacted for a brief 
telephone interview to verify that interviewers followed proper 
protocols when collecting data. The sample size supports testing of 
field procedures, sampling algorithms, and data processing steps. The 
total annual burden estimate is shown in the table below.

                   Annualized Estimated Burden for the National Mental Health Study Field Test
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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number      Hours per     Total burden
           Instrument               respondents     respondent     of responses      response          hours
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Household Screening.............           2,331               1           2,331           0.083             193
Interview (including interviews            1,200               1           1,200           1.083           1,300
 with Adults and Adolescents)...
Parent Interview................             210               1             210           0.500             105
Clinical Interview..............             150               1             150           1.000             150
Clinical Parent Interview.......              50               1              50           0.500              25
Screening Verification..........             142               1             142           0.067              10
Interview Verification..........             180               1             180           0.067              12
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    Total.......................           4,263  ..............           4,263  ..............           1,795
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by August 10, 2017 to the SAMHSA 
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of 
comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing 
of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are encouraged 
to submit their comments to OMB via email to: 
[email protected]. Although commenters are encouraged to send 
their comments via email, commenters may also fax their comments to: 
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management 
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2017-14374 Filed 7-10-17; 8:45 am]
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