[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 215 (Monday, November 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60822-60823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29109]
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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 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 (301) 443-7978.
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.--Use of Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs)
and Technical Assistance Publications (TAPs) by Faculty and Curriculum
Developers Associated with the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers
(ATTCs)--New--The ATTC Study is a special study under the ongoing TIPs
Evaluation Project. Since 1992, SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment (CSAT) has published 33 Treatment Improvement Protocols, or
TIPs, which provide administrative and clinical practice guidance to
the substance abuse treatment field; and 23 Technical Assistance
Publications (TAPs), which are publications, manuals, and guides
developed by experts with first-hand experience to offer practical
responses to emerging issues and concerns in the substance abuse
treatment field.
Configured as a mixed methodologies, multi-site case study, the
ATTC study will elicit process and descriptive data related to
assessing both actual use, and usefulness, of TIPs and TAPs in
developing curricula and other knowledge application products for
ATTCs. Data will be collected through on-site activities at six of the
13 ATTCs. Those activities will include intensive, on-site interviews
with both ATTC curriculum developers and faculty/trainers identified by
directors of the selected ATTC sites and through ``snowball'' sampling
techniques; additional, brief interviews with curriculum developers and
faculty/trainers identified by directors of the selected sites and
through snowball sampling techniques; a brief demographic survey form
to be filled out by all respondents; list-building/ranking and other
special techniques, to be incorporated into the more intensive
interviews; and small group discussions. Measures will be primarily
descriptive and process, for example, whether, and if so, which, TIPs
and TAPs have been or are being used in development of ATTC curricula;
how and to what extent TIPs and TAPs are used; faculty/trainers' and
curriculum developers' perceptions regarding the advantages and
disadvantages of using TIPs and TAPs; and their impressions and
suggestions concerning the content and format of TIPs and TAPs.
Burden for faculty/trainers and curriculum developers includes
written responses to a brief demographic questionnaire, including
faxing or mailing it back (est.10-15 minutes); subsequent participation
in a brief (\1/2\ hour) or longer one-on-one, semi-structured interview
(est.1-1 \1/2\ hours), or in a small group discussion on site (1 hour);
and round-trip travel to the interview/group discussion site. Burden
attributed to Facility Directors for the 13 ATTCs includes time spent
assisting the study team before and during the site visit, including
identifying and discussing possible participants for interviews and
group discussions. Burden for the National ATTC involves time spent
assisting the study team in tracking ATTCs' replies to a request for
information and sample products.
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Number. of
Respondents Number of responses/ Hours/response Total burden
respondents respondent hours
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Faculty/trainers................................ 54 2 * 1.125 122
Curriculum developers........................... 54 2 * 1.125 122
Facility Director............................... 13 1 .5 7
National ATTC................................... 1 1 1 1
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Total....................................... 122 .............. .............. 252
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* Includes travel time
Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: November 1, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-29109 Filed 11-5-99; 8:45 am]
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