[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 124 (Tuesday, June 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37445-37448]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-15722]
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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 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
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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: Evaluation of Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW)
Program
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is funding 11
fiscal year (FY) 2009 Services Grants for the Residential Treatment for
Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW) Program. The purpose of the PPW
Program is to provide cost-effective, comprehensive, residential
treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women who suffer from
alcohol and other drug use problems, and for their infants and children
impacted by the perinatal and environmental effects of maternal
substance use and abuse.
Section 508 [290bb-1] of the Public Health Service Act mandates the
evaluation and dissemination of findings of residential treatment
programs for pregnant and postpartum women. This cross-site
accountability assessment will assess project activities implemented
for these services.
CSAT is requesting approval for a total of 8,404 burden hours for
this new data collection. CSAT is requesting approval for a total of 23
instruments. Of these 23 instruments, 18 instruments are client-level
tools and 5 instruments are process-level tools. To examine the
effectiveness and impact of the PPW program, the current design
includes both client-level outcomes and process evaluation components.
The purpose of the outcome evaluation component is to examine the
extent to which grantees accomplish the five core goals specified by
the PPW program request for applications (RFA). These goals include:
Decrease the use and/or abuse of prescription drugs,
alcohol, tobacco, illicit and other harmful drugs (e.g., inhalants)
among pregnant and postpartum women;
Increase safe and healthy pregnancies; improve birth
outcomes; and reduce related effects of maternal drug abuse on infants
and children;
Improve the mental and physical health of the women and
children;
Improve family functioning, economic stability, and
quality of life; and
Decrease involvement in and exposure to crime, violence,
sexual and physical abuse, and child abuse and neglect.
In order to help interpret client-level outcomes, the process
evaluation will explore what grantees are actually doing, how well they
are doing it, any challenges encountered, and strategies grantees used
to address them.
Data collection instruments will be used to collect outcome and
process data for this cross-site accountability evaluation, program and
treatment planning, and local evaluations. For clients, data will be
collected from women at four time points (intake, 6-months post-intake,
discharge, and 6-months post-discharge), consistent with the GPRA data
collection schedule. The schedule for collecting child data is similar
to the mothers, with the addition of a 3-month post-intake time point.
The following interview instruments will be used for women, fathers/
mother's partner, and children:
Women Focused Tools
BASIS-24[supreg] (psychological symptomology).
Child Abuse Potential Inventory (overall risk for child
physical abuse).
Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index (quality of life
measure).
Family Support Scale (helpfulness of sources of support to
parents raising a young child).
Women's Discharge Tool (services received, length of stay,
treatment goals achieved).
Staff Completed Women's Items (pregnancy status, problems
and outcomes).
Items Administered to Women (children residing with mother
in treatment, tobacco use, physical abuse and sexual abuse in the past
year).
Father and Partner Focused Tools
Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index (quality of life
measure).
Child Focused Tools
Brief Infant Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment
(children 12-35 months; social and emotional assessment).
Child Data Collection Tool (all children; descriptive
biopsychosocial measure).
Children's Discharge Tool (all children; services
received, length of stay, treatment goals achieved, whether child lived
in the facility).
CRAFFT (children 11-17; adolescent substance use screen).
Newborn's Medical Record Audit (childen birth-3 months;
birth outcomes).
Parenting Relationship Questionnaire (children 2-17 years;
parent's relationship with child).
Parenting Stress Index (children 1 month--12 years;
parenting stress).
Social Skills Improvement System (children 3-17 years;
social skills).
Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (3-12 years;
trauma symptoms).
Staff Completed Child Items (children 0-17; prematurity,
child's recent primary residence, whether child will reside in
treatment with mother).
Staff Completed Newborn Items (children 0-3 months;
prematurity, length of stay in hospital, neonatal intensive care unit
(NICU), and treatment for neononatal abstinence syndrome).
Note that all child focused tools are records reviews or
administered as maternal interviews with the exception of CRAFFT, which
is administered to the children directly.
Process Evaluation Tools
Biannual Project Director Telephone Interview (interview
with grantee project directors to clarify information reported in their
biannual progress reports);
Site Visit Protocol--Client Focus Group (focus groups with
clients to gather information about their experience in the program);
Site Visit Protocol--Clinical Director(s)/Supervisor(s)
(interviews with both the director of clinical services for women and
the director of clinical services for children to gather more specific
information about clinical services);
Site Visit Protocol--Counselor(s) (interviews with
counselors to gather information related to daily treatment operations
and their experience in providing services); and
Site Visit Protocol--Program Director (interview with
grantee program directors gather information about overall PPW
programmatic issues).
All data will be collected using a combination of observation,
records review, questionnaires, and personal interviews. CSAT will use
this data for accountability reporting, and program monitoring to
inform public policy, research, and programming as they relate to the
provision of women's services. Data produced by this study will provide
direction to the type of technical assistance that will be required by
service providers of women's programming. In addition, the data will be
used by individual grantees to support progress report efforts.
The total annualized burden to respondents for all components of
the PPW program is estimated to be 8,404 hours. Table A-1 presents a
detailed
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breakdown of the annual burden for all data collection instruments for
all respondents (i.e., mother, child, project staff, partner/father
(family members), medical staff, project director, clinical director,
counselor, program director). The number of respondents for all child-
focused tools is weighted, based on the percentage of children within
the appropriate age bracket in the prior PPW evaluation. With the
exception of the CRAFFT, all child-focused tools are completed for the
child by the mother or project staff. The burden estimates, also
summarized in Table A-2, are based on the reported experience of the
2006 cohort, proprietary instrument developer estimates and experience,
pre-testing of the additional items completed by staff and administered
to women, and pre-testing of process evaluation measures. There are no
direct costs to respondents other than their time to participate.
Table A-1--Detailed Annual Burden for All Interviews and Surveys
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Number of Responses Burden per Total
Interviews and surveys Respondent respondents per Total resp. burden
\1\ respondent responses (hrs.) (hrs.)
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Child Focused Interviews
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CRAFFT (11-17 yrs) \2\......................... Child................................. 70 5 350 0.08 28
Brief Infant Toddler Social and Emotional Mother................................ 141 5 705 0.17 120
Assessment (12-35 mos) \3\.
Child Data Collection Tool (0-17 yrs) \4\...... Mother................................ 440 2 880 0.75 660
Parenting Relationship Questionnaire (2-17 yrs) Mother................................ 387 5 1,935 0.25 484
\5\.
Parenting Stress Index (1 month-12 yrs) \6\.... Mother................................ 418 10 4,180 0.5 2,090
Social Skills Improvement System (3-17 yrs) \7\ Mother................................ 326 5 1,630 0.42 685
Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (3- Mother................................ 290 5 1,450 0.33 479
12 yrs) \8\.
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Women Focused Interviews
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BASIS-24[supreg]............................... Mother................................ 440 4 1,760 0.25 440
Child Abuse Potential Inventory................ Mother................................ 440 4 1,760 0.33 581
Family Support Scale........................... Mother................................ 440 4 1,760 0.17 299
Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index Mother................................ 440 4 1,760 0.17 299
(Women).
Items Administered to Women.................... Mother................................ 440 4 1,760 0.17 299
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Fathers and Partners Interview
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Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index Partner/Father........................ 110 2 220 0.17 37
(Partners).
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Staff Completed Items/Record Reviews at 11 Facilities
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Children's Discharge Tool (0-17 yrs) \9\....... Project Staff......................... 11 80 880 0.58 510
Women's Discharge Tool......................... Project Staff......................... 11 40 440 0.58 255
Newborn's Medical Record Audit (0-3 mos) \10\.. Medical Staff......................... 11 25 275 0.08 22
Staff Completed Newborn Items.................. Medical Staff......................... 11 25 275 0.25 69
Staff Completed Child Items (0-17 yrs) \11\.... Project Staff......................... 11 400 4,400 0.08 352
Staff Completed Women's Items \12\............. Project Staff......................... 11 160 1,760 0.17 299
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Process Evaluation
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Biannual Project Director Telephone Interview.. Project Director...................... 11 2 22 1 22
Site Visit Protocol--Client Focus Group \13\... Mother................................ 176 1 176 1.5 264
Site Visit Protocol--Clinical Director/ Clinical Director/Supervisor.......... 22 1 22 2 44
Supervisor.
Site Visit Protocol--Counselor(s).............. Counselor............................. 33 1 33 1 33
Site Visit Protocol--Program Director.......... Program Director...................... 11 1 11 3 33
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Total...................................... ...................................... 4,701 ........... 28,444 ........... 8,404
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\1\ Data will be collected from women at four time points (intake, 6-months post-intake, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge), consistent with the
GPRA data collection schedule. Figures in this table are based on 40 mothers per site with 2 children and 0.25 father/partner per mother. The schedule
for collecting child data is similar to the mother's with the addition of a 3-months post-intake time point with selected tools for a total of five
time points. All child focused tools are completed by the mother of project staff, with the exception of CRAFFT. For fathers and partners, data will
be collected at two points (intake and discharge).
\2\ Based on 8% of 880 minor children ages 11 to 17 at intake, 3 months, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
\3\ Based on 16% of 880 minor children ages 12-35 months at intake, 3 months, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
\4\ Based on 440 mothers having 2 minor children at intake and/or delivery.
\5\ Based on 44% of 880 minor children ages 2 to 17 at intake, 3 months, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
\6\ Based on 95% of 880 minor children ages 1 month to 12 years (n=836). For simplicity, this calculation assumes that 95% of mothers have two children
in this age group and complete the tool for each child at intake, 3 months, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
\7\ Based on 37% of 880 minor children ages 3 to 17 at intake, 3 months, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
\8\ Based on 33% of 880 minor children ages 3 to 12 at intake, 3 months, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
\9\ Based on 1 staff member at each of the 11 programs completing the tool for 80 children at discharge.
\10\ Based on 31% of 880 minor children ages 0-3 months at intake or delivery.
\11\ Based on 80 minor children per site ages 0 to 17 at intake, 3 months, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
\12\ Based on 1 staff member at each of the 11 programs completing items for 40 women at intake, 6 months, discharge, and 6-months post-discharge.
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\13\ Based on 2 focus groups with 8 mothers at each site.
Table A-2--Summary Total Annual Respondent Burden
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total hour
Respondent respondents respondent responses response burden
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Mothers......................... 440 .............. 19,756 .............. 6,700
Family Members.................. 110 .............. 220 .............. 37
Children (11-17 yrs)............ 70 .............. 350 .............. 28
Medical Staff................... 11 .............. 550 .............. 91
Project Staff................... 11 .............. 7,480 .............. 1,416
Project Director................ 11 .............. 22 .............. 22
Clinical Director/Supervisor.... 22 .............. 22 .............. 44
Counselor....................... 33 .............. 33 .............. 33
Program Director................ 11 .............. 11 .............. 33
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Total....................... 719 .............. 28,444 .............. 8,404
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Note: Total number of respondents represents the number of each
type of respondent that will be completing at least one tool across
eleven sites over one year of data collection. The number of
respondents (719) reported on this table differs from Table A-1
total number of respondents (4,701) which reflects completion of all
tools across eleven sites over one year of data collection.
Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 7-1044, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20850. Written comments
should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: June 22, 2010.
Elaine Parry,
Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. 2010-15722 Filed 6-28-10; 8:45 am]
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