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.

Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Providers as Information

Customers

New--Clinicians in the field of substance abuse treatment are

increasingly turning to information products and services in managing

the care of their patients, accessing new knowledge about treatment,

and organizing their management systems. This study will help SAMHSA's

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) to be better able to

synthesize and disseminate knowledge by providing a representative

assessment of the information products and services that currently

exist in the substance abuse treatment industry.

Program directors and clinicians will be surveyed in a brief

telephone interview asking about their perceptions of information

products and services that are currently being used, and their

perceived need or interest in such new or improved products being

developed and made available. The instrument that will be used to

survey the providers and clinical staff will include a series of

questions around a taxonomy and list of information products and

services that are or might be used in the substance abuse treatment

provider industry. A nationally representative target sample of 275

facilities will be drawn, and interviews will be completed with program

facility directors and clinical staff. The estimated annualized burden

for a one-year data collection period is summarized below.

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Number of Average burden/

Number of responses/ response Total burden

respondents respondent (hr.) hours

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Facility Directors.............................. 206 1 .33 68

Clinical Staff.................................. 350 1 .25 88

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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 156

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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, DC

20503.

Dated: January 14, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-1548 Filed 1-22-99; 8:45 am]

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