Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration

(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a

copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the

HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301)-443-1129.

The following request has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995:

Standard Needs Assessment Protocol for the National AIDS Education

and Training Centers (AETC) Program--New--The National AIDS Education

and Training Centers (AETC) Program is a network of fifteen regional

centers with more than 75 local performance sites that conduct targeted

multidisciplinary HIV education and training programs for health care

providers. AETCs are required, as a condition of award, to conduct

periodic assessments of the learning needs of health care providers in

their catchment areas, before designing the training programs they

intend to offer. The AETC program has developed a national learning

needs assessment tool and protocol, which has been field tested and is

now available for use by all fifteen AETCs. The survey instruments will

be sent to a random sample of approximately 35,418 health care

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providers nationally each year. Results from the surveys will be used

to identify, for seven health care disciplines in each State and AETC

catchment area, topical areas in HIV/AIDS treatment in which training

is most needed, and how best to provide the training. This will allow

the AETCs to develop training programs responsive to the identified

needs. Each discipline will be surveyed every three years. The

estimated burden is as follows:

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Responses

Health care profession No. of per Hours per Total hour

respondents respondent response burden

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Year 1

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Physicians....................... Target*.................. 12,736 1 .25 3,184

Others................... 7,164 1 .12 860

Psychosocial/Mental Health Target................... 9,853 1 .25 2,463

Workers.

Others................... 5,076 1 .12 609

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Year 1 Burden Subtotal..... ......................... 34,829 ........... ........... 7,116

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Year 2

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Nurses........................... Target................... 12,780 1 .25 3,195

Others................... 7,188 1 .12 827

Physician Assistants............. Target................... 4,866 1 .25 1,216

Others................... 2,737 1 .12 328

Advanced Practice Nurses......... Target................... 4,866 1 .25 1,216

Others................... 2,737 1 .12 328

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Year 2 Burden Subtotal..... ......................... 35,174 ........... ........... 7,147

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Year 3

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Dentists......................... Target................... 7,531 1 .25 1,883

Others................... 13,986 1 .12 1,678

Dental Hygenists................. Target................... 5,157 1 .25 1,289

Others................... 9,576 1 .12 1,149

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Year 3 Burden Subtotal..... ......................... 36,250 ........... ........... 5,999

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Total 3 Year Burden........ ......................... 106,253 ........... ........... 20,263

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Average Yearly Burden...... ......................... 35,418 ........... ........... 6,754

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* The target group includes those professionals currently serving or likely to serve persons with HIV/AIDS.

Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: October 30, 1996.

J. Henry Montes,

Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.

[FR Doc. 96-28292 Filed 11-4-96; 8:45 am]

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