[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 26, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29798-29800]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-13590]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; National Survey of Organ 
Donation Attitudes and Practices, OMB No. 0915-0290--Reinstatement With 
Change

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 
has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for 
reinstatement with change of a previously approved information 
collection, assigned OMB control number 0915-0290, which expired on 
March 31, 2015. Comments submitted during the first public review of 
this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from 
the public during the review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than July 26, 
2018.

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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR Title, to the desk 
officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by 
fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Lisa Wright-Solomon, the 
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or 
call (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: National Survey of Organ 
Donation Attitudes and Practices, OMB No. 0915-0290--Reinstatement with 
Change.
    Abstract: HRSA is requesting approval from OMB for reinstatement 
with change of a previously approved collection of information (OMB 
control number 0915-0290). The National Survey of Organ Donation 
Attitudes and Practices (NSODAP) is conducted approximately every 6-7 
years and serves a critical role in providing HRSA and the donation 
community with data regarding why Americans choose to donate organ, 
current barriers to donation, and potential new approaches to 
increasing donations. Survey data and derived analytic insights inform 
HRSA's public outreach and educational initiatives. HRSA is improving 
the quality and relevance of the data collected by making the following 
changes:
    (1) HRSA is increasing the ability to produce more precise results 
by targeting 10,000 completed surveys (increased from 3,250 in 2012). 
This increase will allow for a more accurate and robust analysis of the 
attitudes and donation practices of important subgroups such as 
Americans over the age of 50 and various minority populations. Although 
the precision of the results from the survey will increase, the 
respondent burden will be reduced, and survey completion costs will be 
lower resulting in a cost neutral change.
    (2) HRSA is streamlining the data collection process to minimize 
respondent burden. Of the 10,000 targeted completed surveys, 8,000 will 
be completed online by a nationally representative web panel composed 
of Americans over the age of 18 who have already agreed to participate 
in a survey. Web panels target a representative section of a population 
used by other approved surveys. HRSA will complete the remaining 2,000 
surveys by telephone. In 2012, all 3,250 surveys were conducted by 
telephone and respondents were contacted using random-digit dialing, a 
process that yielded a low response rate. Contacting respondents by 
telephone will remain a part of the survey protocol to compare current 
data to the 2012 data. However, for this survey, identification of a 
sample of adults over the age of 18 for a telephone survey will be from 
a national list of home addresses. Before contact, those selected for 
the telephone survey will receive a mailed pre-notification letter with 
information about the survey. This mailing will improve survey 
cooperation and reduce the number of people contacted for the survey. 
Additionally, it is more time and cost effective to take the survey 
online than taking the survey by phone as the average response will be 
0.1 hour shorter, and the cost of an online survey can range $3-$4 per 
survey compared to $50-$100 for a high-quality phone survey.
    (3) To improve the relevance of the data collected and in response 
to the comments received during the 60-day public comment period, HRSA 
revised the instrument to add, remove, or edit a few questions. Example 
changes include removing certain questions that were only relevant for 
a random-digit-dialing sample design, editing certain questions to add 
clarity, and adding questions to highlight emerging topics such as 
receiving organ donation information through a hand-held device or 
mobile apps.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA is the primary 
federal entity responsible for oversight of organ and blood stem cell 
transplant systems and initiatives to increase organ donor registration 
and donation in the United States. This survey is the primary method by 
which HRSA can obtain information from Americans about organ donation 
attitudes and beliefs. OMB previously approved this survey, and HRSA 
fielded it during 2005 and 2012. HRSA uses the resulting information 
from the survey to inform practice, policy, and other public awareness 
and education activities related to organ donation and transplantation. 
This type of information is essential for planning, targeting, and 
implementing outreach efforts to increase public donation commitment as 
well as for tracking the results of such efforts over time. Members of 
the donation and transplantation community also make use of the 
findings of the survey in their outreach efforts and research efforts. 
Increasing the number of completed cases via a web panel for online 
survey completion and modifying the survey instrument without 
increasing the survey length will dramatically improve the quality and 
precision of the results while minimizing respondent burden as much as 
possible. The modified instrument and survey fielding methods will 
allow research on the attitudes and behaviors of important subgroups of 
Americans as well as research on emerging topics related to organ 
donation.
    Likely Respondents: A nationally representative sample of adults 
over the age of 18 with a high number of responses from populations of 
interest such as racial-ethnic minorities, including African American, 
Asian, Native American, and Hispanic respondents, as well as 
respondents of all age groups and education levels.
    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 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         Total        burden per     Total  burden
            Form name               respondents    responses per     responses     response  (in       hours
                                                    respondent                        hours)
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National Survey of Organ                   2,000               1           2,000             .37             740
 Donation Attitudes and
 Practices--Telephone (English
 and Spanish Versions)..........

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National Survey of Organ                   8,000               1           8,000             .27           2,160
 Donation Attitudes and
 Practices--Web Online Panel
 (English and Spanish Versions).
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    Total.......................          10,000  ..............          10,000  ..............           2,900
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Amy P. McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2018-13590 Filed 6-25-18; 8:45 am]
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