[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 143 (Thursday, July 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44956-44957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-17878]
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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: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for
Excellence (CFE) Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) Project and
Project CHOICES Evaluation (OMB No. 0930-0302)--Reinstatement
Since 2001, SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention has been
operating the SAMHSA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for
Excellence (CFE). The purpose of the FASD Center for Excellence is to
prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies among women of childbearing age and
pregnant women and to improve the quality of life for individuals
affected by FASD. Data will be collected from women served across
approximately 10 sites in local/community-based agencies. Women will be
screened for alcohol use, and provided appropriate interventions based
on their pregnancy status.
The FASD CFE will be integrating Screening and Brief Intervention
(SBI) for pregnant women and Project CHOICES for non-pregnant women
through service delivery organizations and will monitor the results.
Approximately 10 sites will implement the SBI program and/or Project
CHOICES.
At baseline, an assessment form will be administered by the
counselor to screen women at the participating sites or health care
delivery programs. Basic demographic data will be collected for all
women screened (age, race/ethnicity, education, and marital status) at
baseline by participating sites but no personal identification
information will be transmitted to SAMHSA. Both quantity and frequency
of drinking will be assessed for all women. Pregnant women will be
assessed for risk of alcohol use using the TWEAK screening instrument,
which has been used successfully with pregnant women. Non-pregnant
women will be assessed for ability to conceive and use of effective
birth control.
SBI focuses on 10- to 15-minute counseling sessions, conducted by a
counselor who will use a scripted manual to guide the program.
Participants in SBI will be assessed throughout their pregnancy to
monitor alcohol use, referred for additional services to support their
efforts to stop drinking, and will be provided with the 10-15 minute
program until the client abstains from alcohol. Clients will be
followed up until their 36th week of pregnancy. At each process visit,
the quantity and frequency of drinking will be assessed and the
client's goals for drinking will be recorded. In addition, process
level variables will be assessed to understand how the program is being
implemented (e.g., whether SBI was delivered; duration of the program;
what referrals were made; client satisfaction). At the 36th week of
pregnancy quantity and frequency of drinking will be assessed, and the
client's satisfaction with the program will be recorded.
For those who screen positive for Project CHOICES (non-pregnant
women 18-44 years who are at risk for an alcohol-exposed pregnancy),
the program will provide two Motivational Interviewing (MI) sessions
related to alcohol use, plus one contraceptive counseling session. The
goal is to help these women prevent an alcohol-exposed pregnancy by
abstaining from alcohol and using contraceptive methods of their choice
consistently and correctly. At the end of the Project CHOICES program,
women are assessed on their alcohol consumption and contraceptive use
in the past 30 days, and their satisfaction with the program is
recorded. At 3 months and 6 months after the end of the program, women
are assessed on 30-day alcohol consumption and contraceptive use using
the same core assessment form that was used at baseline.
All participating sites will maintain personally identifiable
information of their clients for service delivery purposes, but the
sites will keep such information private to the maximum extent
allowable by laws. Data will be collected at the site level and sites
will be instructed to keep personal data secure in a specified
location. To further ensure privacy of individual responses, all data
will be reported at the aggregate level so that individual responses
cannot be identified; no data will be reported at the individual
participant level. Furthermore, data will be collected to meet the
criteria of a ``limited data set'' as defined in the Privacy
Regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), (HIPAA Privacy Rule, 45 CFR -- 164.501) [45
CFR 164.514(e)(4)(ii)]. A computer generated coding system will be used
to identify the records, and access to records will be limited only to
authorized personnel. In addition, the identifiers will be stored
separately from the data. No direct identifiers will be included in
order for the data to be considered a ``limited data set.'' A summary
of the actions the contractors will take in order to comply with HIPAA
follows:
Ensure that the personal health information respondents
disclose to outside entities does not violate the Privacy Rule.
When creating a unique identification code, ensure that
the code does not contain information that can be used to identify the
individual.
Sign a data agreement that states all HIPAA requirements
will be adhered to consistent with a limited data set.
Agree to maintain the confidentiality of alcohol and drug
abuse client records according to the provisions of Title 42 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, Part II.
The data collection is designed to monitor the implementation of
the proposed programs by measuring whether abstinence from alcohol is
achieved, and for Project CHOICES by measuring whether effective birth
control practices are performed. Furthermore, the program will include
process measures to monitor how the interventions were provided.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average Total burden
Instrument/activity Number of responses per Total number burden per hours per
respondents respondent of responses response collection
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Pregnant Women (SBI)
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Baseline Assessment (Form A).... 9,273 1 9,273 .25 2,318
Process Assessment for all 2,468 2 4,936 .21 1,037
Eligible women (Forms A and B)
(26.6% of baseline)............
Process Assessment for women 395 1 395 .21 83
actively drinking (Forms A and
B) (16% of 2,468 eligible
women).........................
End of Program Assessment (Forms 1,234 1 1,234 .16 197
A and C) (50% of eligible
women).........................
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SBI Sub Total............... 9,273 .............. 15,838 .............. 3,635
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Non-Pregnant Women (Project CHOICES)
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Baseline Assessment (Form A).... 1,220 1 1,220 .25 305
End of program Assessment (Forms 314 1 314 .25 79
A and C) (50% of 629 eligible
women).........................
Follow-up Assessment (Form A) 314 2 628 .25 157
(50% of 629 eligible women)....
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Project CHOICES Sub Total... 1,220 .............. 2,162 .............. 541
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Totals...................... 10,493 .............. 18,000 .............. 4,176
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Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 2-1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 or email her a
copy at [email protected]. Written comments should be received
by September 23, 2013.
Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2013-17878 Filed 7-24-13; 8:45 am]
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