[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 189 (Monday, September 30, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51609-51610]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-21137]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
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 Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of
proposed projects. To request more information on the proposed projects
or to obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1112.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) 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.
Proposed Project: National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS) (OMB
No. 0930-0119)--Revision
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ)
is requesting a revision to the National Mental Health Services Survey
(N-MHSS) (OMB No. 0930-0119), which expires on January 31, 2020. The N-
MHSS provides annual national and state-level data on the number and
characteristics of mental health treatment facilities in the United
States and biennial national and state-level data on the number and
characteristics of persons treated in these facilities. The information
in the N-MHSS is needed to assess the nature and extent of these
resources, to identify gaps in services, and to provide a database for
treatment referrals.
The request for OMB approval will include a request to conduct the
N-MHSS and the between-survey updates in 2020, 2021, and 2022. This
update is a procedure for collecting services data from newly
identified facilities between main cycles of the survey and will be
used to improve the listing of treatment facilities in the online
Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator.
The N-MHSS will provide updated information about facilities for
SAMHSA's online Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator (see:
https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov), which was last updated with
information from the N-MHSS in 2018. A full-scale N-MHSS will be
conducted in 2020 and 2022 to collect (1) information about facilities
needed for updating the online Locator, such as the facility name and
address, specific services offered, and special client groups served
and (2) additional information about client counts and the demographics
of persons treated in these facilities. An abbreviated N-MHSS (N-MHSS-
Locator Survey) will be conducted in 2021 only to update the
information about facilities in the online Locator. Three small surveys
are proposed for adding new facilities to the online Locator as they
become known to SAMHSA. Both the 2021 N-MHSS-Locator Survey and the
addition of new facilities to the online Locator will use the same N-
MHSS-Locator Survey instrument.
This request for a revision seeks to change the content of the
currently approved abbreviated N-MHSS (i.e., N-MHSS-Locator) survey
instrument, and the previously approved 2018 full-scale N-MHSS (OMB No.
0930-0119) to accommodate two related N-MHSS activities:
(1) Collection of information from the total N-MHSS universe of
mental health treatment facilities during 2020, 2021, and 2022; and
(2) collection of information on newly identified facilities
throughout the year as they are identified so that new facilities can
quickly be added to the online Locator.
The survey mode for both data collection activities will be web
with telephone follow-up. A paper questionnaire will also be available
to facilities who request one.
The database resulting from the N-MHSS will be used to update
SAMHSA's online Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator and to
produce an electronic version of a national directory of mental health
facilities, for use by the general public, behavioral health
professionals, and treatment service providers. In addition, a data
file derived from the survey will be used to produce a summary report
providing national and state-level outcomes. The summary report and a
public-use data file will be used by researchers, mental health
professionals, State governments, the U.S. Congress, and the general
public.
The request for OMB approval will include a request to conduct a
full-scale N-MHSS in 2020 and 2022, and an abbreviated N-MHSS-Locator
survey in 2021.
The following table summarizes the estimated annual response burden
for the I-BHS and the N-MHSS:
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Summary of Estimated Annual Burden for the N-MHSS
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Number of Responses per Average hours Total burden
Facility respondent respondents respondent per response hours
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Facilities in full-survey N-MHSS universe in 17,000 1 0.75 12,750
2020 and 2022..................................
Newly identified facilities in Between-Survey 1,700 1 0.42 714
Update in 2017, 2018, and 2019 1 2.............
Facilities in N-MHSS-Locator Survey universe in 17,000 1 0.42 7,140
2021...........................................
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Average Annual Total........................ 18,700 1 0.59 11,118
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\1\ Throughout the year, approximately ten percent of facilities close or merge and a similar number of new
facilities are identified.
\2\ Collection of information on newly identified facilities throughout the year, as they are identified, so
that new facilities can quickly be added to the Locator.
To stay current with the field and to collect policy relevant
information, SAMHSA will add a series of questions about facilities
offering pharmacotherapy for the treatment of serious mental illness
(SMI), in particular information on the first- and second-generation
antipsychotics used by these facilities. Also, a series of questions on
crisis services were added to the survey. The N-MHSS will also be
collecting information on facilities providing services to persons
experiencing first episode psychosis (FEP), which was not asked in
previous versions of the survey. In consultation with experts in the
field, some categories and wording were updated to reflect current
terminology in the field.
Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15E21-B, Rockville, MD 20857 OR email a copy at
[email protected]. Written comments should be received by
November 29, 2019.
Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2019-21137 Filed 9-27-19; 8:45 am]
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