[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 223 (Friday, November 18, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71578-71579]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29830]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To obtain a
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301)
443-1129.
The following request has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995:
Proposed Project: National Survey of Organ Donation Attitudes and
Practices (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--[New]
The Division of Transplantation (DoT), Healthcare Systems Bureau,
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is planning to
conduct a telephone survey of public knowledge, perceptions, opinion,
and behaviors related to organ donation. Two key missions of the DoT
are (1) to provide oversight for the Organ Procurement and
Transplantation Network and policy development related to organ
donation and transplantation and (2) to implement efforts to increase
public knowledge about the need for increased organ donation.
With a constantly growing deficit between the number of Americans
needing donor organs (currently approximately 112,000) and the annual
number of donors (14,505 in 2010), raising the American public's
willingness to donate becomes increasingly critical. Effective
education and outreach campaigns need to be based on knowledge of the
public's attitudes and perceptions about, and perceived impediments to,
organ donation. Two national surveys using nearly identical survey
instruments to identify public views and behaviors related to organ
donation were conducted in 1993 and 2005.
The proposed study will identify current organ donation views and
practices of the American public and various population subgroups using
a survey instrument similar to the two earlier studies in order to
track changes over time. It will measure issues such as public
knowledge about and attitudes toward organ donation, public commitment
to or willingness to donate, impediments to public willingness to
donate, and attitudes toward living donation, donation practices,
policy issues, allocation policy, presumed consent, and financial
incentives for donation. Demographic information also will be
collected. The randomly drawn sample will consist of 3,250 adults (age
18 and over), including an oversample of Asians, Hispanics, African
Americans, and Native Americans, and will be geographically
representative of the United States. The survey instrument will be
administered in both English and Spanish through computer-assisted
telephone interviews.
In addition to being useful to the DoT (especially in its donation
outreach initiatives), results of this survey also will be of
assistance to the donation and transplant community, DoT grantees and
other research efforts, and to the
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Secretary's Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT) as it
fulfills its charge to advise the Secretary of Health and Human
Services on the numerous and often controversial issues related to
donation and transplantation. In its first meeting, the ACOT suggested
such a survey to gather information to inform both public education
efforts and policy decisions on the issue of organ donation.
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total burden
Instrument respondents respondent responses response hours
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Telephone survey................ 3,250 1 3,250 0.3 975
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Total....................... 3,250 1 3,250 0.3 975
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
A similar request for public comments was published in the Federal
Register on September 20, 2011 (76 FR 58282).
Dated: November 14, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-29830 Filed 11-17-11; 8:45 am]
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