[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 205 (Thursday, October 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63415-63416]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25214]
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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 (OMB No.
0930-0333)--Revision
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. This project is a revision of the Evaluation of
Lifeline Policies for Helping Callers at Risk and 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)]. The extension and revision data collection is an effort to
advance the understanding of crisis hotline utilization and its impact.
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 a revised imminent risk form, to inform
the network's knowledge of the extent to
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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
(voluntary or involuntary); barriers to intervention; circumstances in
which active rescue is initiated, including the caller's agreement to
receive the intervention, profile of imminent risk callers; and the
types of interventions counselors used with them.
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, the types of interventions used,
and, ultimately, improve the delivery of crisis hotline services to
imminent risk callers. A total of eight new centers will participate in
this evaluation. Thus, SAMHSA is requesting OMB review and approval of
the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline--Imminent Risk Form-Revised.
Crisis counselors at eight new participating centers will record
information discussed with imminent risk callers on the Imminent Risk
Form-Revised, 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 15 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) Counselor information, (2) center
information, (3) call characteristics (e.g., line called, language
spoken, participation of third party), (4) suicidal desire, (5)
suicidal intent, (6) suicidal capability, (7) buffers to suicide, (8)
interventions agreed to by caller or implemented by counselor without
caller's 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, (11) whether
supervisory consultation occurred during or after the call, (12)
barriers to getting needed help to the person at imminent risk, (13)
steps taken to confirm whether emergency contact was made with person
at risk, (14) outcome of attempts to rescue person at risk, and (15)
outcome of attempts to follow-up on the case. The revised form reduces
and streamlines responses options for intervention questions. It also
adds information about the center, the call (e.g., language and
military service), interventions (e.g., supervisor contact, rescue
initiation), and follow-up/outcome. 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 750 forms will be
completed by 132 counselors over the three-year data collection period.
The estimated response burden to collect this information is
annualized over the requested three-year clearance period and is
presented below:
Total and Annualized Burden: 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-Revised... 132 1.9 250 .26 65
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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 December 22, 2014.
Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2014-25214 Filed 10-22-14; 8:45 am]
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