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: Evaluation of Treatment Improvement Protocol

(TIP) No. 24--New--Since 1992, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

(CSAT) has published Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs), which

provide administrative and clinical practice guidance to the substance

abuse treatment field. Up to six special studies will be conducted to

evaluate the impact of TIPs. The first of these will evaluate the

dissemination and impact of TIP No. 24--Guide to Substance Abuse

Services for Primary Care Clinicians--on the clinical practices of

primary care physicians and related health professionals. The

information contained in the document has been published in three

alternative lengths and formats: the complete TIP, a Concise Desk

Reference, and a Pocket Reference Guide.

This study will examine the likely usefulness for primary care

clinicians of the content of TIP No. 24, published in 1998, and will

compare the utility of the three alternative lengths and formats for

presenting the information. All three versions of the TIP No. 24

material will be mailed to the leadership of 24 professional health

organizations representing primary health care professionals throughout

the Nation; a sample of the leadership will then be surveyed and asked

to assess the content of the materials and the utility of each of the

three versions.

The study will use a one-group posttest-only design. Primary

objectives of the study are to determine: (1) the

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leadership's personal assessment of the usefulness of the information

and the three versions; (2) the leadership's assessment of the value of

the information and the alternative versions to the members they

represent; (3) the leadership's awareness of the TIP series in general;

and (4) the extent to which leaders are likely to encourage their

respective members to obtain and use at least one of the three versions

of the information. All data will be collected using mailed

questionnaires and followup telephone calls if necessary. The estimated

annualized burden for a 1-year data collection period is summarized

below.

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Number of Total

Number of responses/ Hours/ burden

respondents respondent response hours

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Opinion/leader-ship group................................... 440 1 .39 172

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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: December 29, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-39 Filed 1-4-99; 8:45 am]

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