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 notices about 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.

Validity of Self-Reported Drug Use in Population Surveys--New

--During the period July 1999 through June 2001, SAMHSA and the

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will conduct a field study to

test the validity of obtaining drug use data through a combination of

computer assisted personal interviewing and audio computer-assisted

self interviewing. A random sample of approximately 14,000 households

(from households listed, but not used, in the National Household Survey

on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) sample segments) will be selected for screening.

Approximately 5,333 persons from the civilian, non-

institutionalized population of the United States ages 12-25 will be

selected to be interviewed. First, a questionnaire (using a subset of

the 1999 NHSDA questions, with a special set of questions for the

validity study) will be administered to determine: (1) The reported

prevalence of use of tobacco products, alcohol, illicit substances, and

illicit use of prescription drugs, and (2) recent environmental

exposures to tobacco and marijuana smoke. Then, permission will be

sought to obtain hair and urine samples from respondents. Under a NIDA

grant, these samples will be chemically analyzed to validate

respondents' self-reports of drug use (about 4,000 respondents are

expected to provide biological specimens). Respondents will be paid an

incentive upon receipt of the hair/urine samples. The results will be

used by SAMHSA, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, other

Federal government agencies, and other organizations and researchers to

estimate the extent of under-reporting on drug use surveys such as the

NHSDA conducted by SAMHSA.

The estimated annualized burden for this project over a three-year

approval period is summarized in the table that follows.

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Number of

Number of responses/ Average burden/ Total burden

respondents respondent response hours

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Household screener.............................. 4,667 1 .05 233

Questionnaire and verification form............. 1,767 1 .67 1,184

Obtain biological specimens..................... 1,333 1 .42 560

Screening verification.......................... 140 1 .067 9

Interview verification.......................... 265 1 .067 18

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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 2,004

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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: February 3, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-3611 Filed 2-12-99; 8:45 am]

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