[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 140 (Thursday, July 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43695-43696]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18371]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed
collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of
proposed projects. To request more information on the proposed projects
or to obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology.
Proposed Project: Networking Suicide Prevention Hotlines--Evaluation of
the Lifeline Policies for Helping Callers at Imminent Risk (NEW)
This proposed project is a new data collection that builds on
previously approved data collection activities [Evaluation of
Networking Suicide Prevention Hotlines Follow-Up Assessment (OMB No.
0930-0274) and Call Monitoring of National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Form (OMB No. 0930-0275)]. This new data collection is an effort to
advance the understanding of crisis hotline utilization and its impact.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) funds a National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network (``Lifeline''), consisting of a
toll-free telephone number that routes calls from anywhere in the
United States to a network of local crisis centers. In turn, the local
centers link callers to local emergency, mental health, and social
service resources.
The overarching purpose of the proposed Evaluation of the Lifeline
Policies for Helping Callers at Imminent Risk is to implement data
collection to evaluate hotline counselors' management of imminent risk
callers and third party callers concerned about persons at imminent
risk, and counselor adherence to Lifeline Policies and Guidelines for
Helping Callers at Imminent Risk of Suicide. Specifically, the
Evaluation of the Lifeline Policies for Helping Callers at Imminent
Risk will collect data, using an imminent risk form, to inform the
network's knowledge of the extent to which counselors are aware of and
being guided by the Lifeline's imminent risk guidelines; counselors'
definitions of imminent risk; the rates of active rescue of imminent
risk callers; types of rescue; barriers to intervention; and the
circumstances in which active rescue is initiated, including the
caller's agreement to receive the intervention.
Clearance is being requested for one activity to assess the
knowledge, actions, and practices of counselors to aid callers who are
determined to be at imminent risk for suicide and who may require
active rescue. This evaluation will allow researchers to examine and
understand the actions taken by counselors to aid imminent risk
callers, the need for active rescue, and, ultimately, to improve the
delivery of crisis hotline services to imminent risk callers. A total
of eight centers will participate in this evaluation. Thus, SAMHSA is
requesting OMB review and approval of the National Suicide Prevention
Lifeline--Imminent Risk Form. This activity is distinct from the Crisis
Center Survey data collection, which targets the entire network of
crisis centers and focuses on a different domain of questions
(specifically, the makeup, strengths, and needs of crisis centers.) The
information gathered from the Crisis Center Survey cannot provide a
profile of imminent risk callers or details about interventions with
imminent risk or third party callers.
Crisis counselors at eight participating centers will record
information discussed with imminent risk callers on the Imminent Risk
Form, which does not require direct data collection from callers. As
with previously approved evaluations, callers will maintain anonymity.
Counselors will be asked to complete the form for 100% of imminent risk
callers to the eight centers participating in the evaluation. This form
requests information in 14 content areas, each with multiple sub-items
and response options. Response options include open-ended, yes/no,
Likert-type ratings, and multiple choice/check all that apply. The form
also requests demographic information on the caller, the identification
of the center and counselor submitting the form, and the date of the
call. Specifically, the form is divided into the following sections:
(1) Call type, (2) gender, (3) age, (4) suicidal desire, (5) suicidal
intent, (6) suicidal capability, (7) buffers to suicide, (8)
interventions agreed to by caller or implemented by counselor without
consent, (9) whether imminent risk was reduced enough such that active
rescue was not needed, (10) interventions for third party callers
calling about a person at imminent risk,
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(11) if supervisory consultation occurred, (12) barriers to getting
needed help to the person at imminent risk, (13) steps taken to confirm
emergency contact was made with person at risk, and (14) steps taken
when emergency contact was NOT made with person at risk. The form will
take approximately 15 minutes to complete and may be completed by the
counselor during or after the call. It is expected that a total of
1,440 forms will be completed by 360 counselors over the two-year data
collection period.
The estimated response burden to collect this information is
annualized over the requested two-year clearance period and is
presented below:
Total and Annualized Averages--Respondents, Responses and Hours
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Number of Responses/ Hours per Total hour
Instrument respondents respondent Total responses response burden
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline--Imminent Risk Form........... 360 2 720 .25 180
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Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 8-1099, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 AND e-mail her
a copy at [email protected]. Written comments should be
received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: July 14, 2011.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Management, Technology and Operations.
[FR Doc. 2011-18371 Filed 7-20-11; 8:45 am]
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