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

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 list of 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 (301) 443-7978.

Proposed Project

Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs): Retrospective Evaluation;

New

Since 1992, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has

published 25 Treatment Improvement Protocols, which provide

administrative and clinical practice guidance to the substance abuse

treatment field. Under the proposed project, three primary studies will

be conducted to evaluate the impact of TIPs. The first of these, the

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Retrospective Study, will examine TIPs published by CSAT as of the time

of the study. This study will examine methods of dissemination used by

CSAT; the success of those methods in reaching the target audiences;

users' perceptions of the value of TIPs; decisions to implement the

guidance presented in TIPs; and the successes, correlates, and barriers

associated with implementation. The Retrospective Study uses a one-

group posttest-only design to provide the framework for a surveys of

respondents from four distinct target audiences of interest to CSAT:

(1) Single State Agency Directors; (2) directors of substance abuse

treatment facilities listed in the most recent Uniform Facilities Data

Set (UFDS) database; (3) clinical directors of treatment facilities

listed in the database; and (4) front-line clinicians/counselors

working in facilities listed in the database. Measures will include

organization characteristics and outcomes associated with the following

variables: awareness, receipt, and reading of TIPs; perceived utility

of TIPs; and the impact of TIPs on changing substance abuse treatment

practices. The estimated annualized burden for a 1-year data collection

period is summarized below.

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Number of Average

Number of responses burden per Total

respondents per response burden

respondent (hrs.) hours

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Single State Agency Directors.............................. 56 2 .55 62

Facility Directors......................................... 1040 1.48 .47 718

Clinical Supervisors....................................... 1040 1.40 .44 642

Counselors................................................. 1280 1.32 .41 696

Total................................................ ........... ............ ........... 2118

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

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

Daniel Chenok, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

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

20503.

Dated: June 4, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98-15546 Filed 6-10-98; 8:45 am]

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