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Dated: December 5, 2012.
Carolyn A. Baum,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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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.
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Proposed Project: Monitoring of
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
(OMB No. 0930–0274)—Revision
This proposed project renewal
includes the continuation of previously
approved data collection activities
Monitoring of National Suicide
Prevention Lifeline Form (OMB No.
0930–0274) in an effort to advance the
understanding of crisis hotline
utilization and its impact. Out of the
previously approved 11 data collection
instruments and consents, only 6 will be
utilized through this revision. The
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration’s (SAMHSA),
Center for Mental Health Services
(CMHS) funds a National Suicide
Prevention Lifeline Network, consisting
of a toll-free telephone number that
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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 Monitoring of National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline— Revision
is to examine the impact of motivational
training and safety planning (MI/SP)
with callers who have expressed
suicidal desire (i.e., follow-up
interviews with callers and counselors).
In total this effort includes three data
collection instruments and three
associated data collection consents.
Clearance is being requested to
continue the previously approved data
collection activities to continue caller
and counselor follow-up assessment
activities which will examine the
process and impact of motivational
training and safety planning (MI/SP)
with callers who have expressed
suicidal ideation. The data collected
through the renewal of these data
collection activities will ultimately help
SAMHSA to understand and direct their
crisis hotline lifesaving initiatives. The
data collection activities are enumerated
below.
Funded crisis centers will train
counselors to implement an
intervention with callers during the
initial call to a center, which
incorporates aspects of motivational
interviewing and safety planning (MI/
SP) and utilizes an evidence-based
practice model to provide follow-up to
callers who have expressed a suicidal
desire. An assessment of MI/SP fidelity
and process measures will be
incorporated into the design through the
administration of two self-administered
questionnaires to crisis center
counselors. The impact assessment of
MI/SP counselor training will include
follow-up telephone interviews with
callers to assess their emotions and
behaviors following their interaction
with the MI/SP trained counselor.
(1) The MI/SP Counselor Attitude
Questionnaire attitude questionnaire
will be administered to counselors at
the conclusion of their MI/SP training
and be used as a possible predictor of
fidelity of the MI/SP intervention.
Information to be gathered includes (a)
counselors’ views of the applicability of
the MI/SP for preparing them to conduct
safety planning and follow up with
callers; (b) possible anticipated
challenges (i.e., impeding factors) to
applying the MI/SP training in their
centers; (c) the relationship of the MI/
SP model to their centers; (d) the extent
to which trainees are provided with or
obtain adequate resources to enable
them to use MI/SP on the job; (e)
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impeding and facilitating factors; and (f)
attitudes about counselors’ self-efficacy
to use MI/SP and views on its utility. It
is expected that a total of 750 counselors
will be trained over the course of 3 years
in an effort to maintain 175 counselors
at any given time. Thus, a total of 750
counselors are expected to complete this
questionnaire during the 3-year data
collection period. Prior to collecting
data from counselors, crisis counselors
must have read and signed the MI/SP
Counselor Consent. This form explains
the purpose of the data collection,
privacy, risks and benefits, what the
data collection entails, and participant
rights. It is anticipated that 750 consents
and questionnaires will be collected by
crisis counselors during the 3-year data
collection period.
(2) At the end of the call and once the
counselor deems the intervention to be
complete, counselors will ask all
appropriate callers, using the MI/SP
Caller Initial Script, for permission to be
re-contacted by research staff for a
follow-up interview. Counselors will
state that the caller may be contacted by
the research team if randomly selected
for a follow-up call. A total of 1,500
callers across the 3-year data collection
period will be provided with the MI/SP
Caller Initial Script for their consent to
be contacted at a later time.
(3) Counselors will be asked to
complete the MI/SP Counselor Followup Questionnaire for each call that is
eligible. The questionnaire will
incorporate an assessment of the
outreach, telephonic follow up and/or
other strategies that the center has
proposed to implement, and whether
the counselor was able to implement the
center’s site plan as originally
conceived. The questionnaire will also
include items on the demographic
characteristics of the caller, whether
contact was successfully made with the
caller, whether the caller followed
through with the safety plan and/or
referral given by the counselor, whether
MI/SP was re-implemented during the
follow-up contact, whether another
follow-up is scheduled, the educational
and crisis experience of the person
attempting re-contact with the caller,
and that person’s prior experience with
follow-up. Barriers to implementing the
follow-up, as well as types of deviation
from the site’s follow-up plan will also
be assessed. Open-ended questions
about what led to deviations from the
site’s follow-up plan will also be
included. In total, it is expected that
counselors will complete 3,750
questionnaires across the 3-year data
collection period.
(4) Researchers will begin conducting
follow-up interviews with callers
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approximately 6 weeks after the initial
call to the center. This follow-up
telephone interview (MI/SP Caller
Follow-up Interview) will be conducted
to collect information on demographic
characteristics, gather caller feedback on
the initial call made to the center,
suicide risk status at the time of and
since the call, current depressive
symptomatology, follow through with
the safety plan and referrals made by the
crisis counselor, and barriers to service.
Prior to collecting information during
the MI/SP Caller Follow-up Interview,
researchers will read callers the MI/SP
Caller Follow-up Consent Script. Taking
into account attrition and the number of
callers who do not give consent, it is
expected that the total number of
follow-up interviews conducted by the
research team will not exceed 1,107.
The estimated response burden to
collect this information is as follows
annualized over the requested 3-year
clearance period is presented below:
ANNUALIZED AVERAGES: RESPONDENTS, RESPONSES AND HOURS
No. of
respondents
Instrument
MI/SP
MI/SP
MI/SP
MI/SP
MI/SP
MI/SP
No. of
responses per
Respondent *
Total number
of responses
Burden/
response
(hours)
Annual
burden *
(hours)
Caller Initial Script .....................................................
Caller Follow-up Consent Script ...............................
Caller Follow-up Interview ........................................
Counselor Consent ...................................................
Counselor Attitudes Questionnaire ...........................
Counselor Follow-up Questionnaire .........................
500
369
369
250
250
250
1
1
1
1
1
5
500
369
369
250
250
1250
.08
.17
.67
.08
.25
.17
40
63
247
20
63
213
Total ..............................................................................
1,988
........................
........................
........................
646
* Rounded to the nearest whole number.
Send comments to Summer King,
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 2–1057, One Choke Cherry Road,
Rockville, MD 20857 AND email her a
copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Menlo Report. The intent of the notice
was to further refine the content of the
Menlo Report beyond the working group
that had generated the report. This
notice responds to the comments
received during this 60-day public
notice.
Summer King,
Statistician.
ADDRESSES:
The updated Menlo Report
may be found at https://
www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: DHS
S&T, Email Menlo_Report@dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DHS–2012–0041]
Response to Comments Received for
the ‘‘The Menlo Report: Ethical
Principles Guiding Information and
Communication Technology
Research’’ (‘‘The Menlo Report’’) for
the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), Science and Technology, Cyber
Security Division (CSD), Protected
Repository for the Defense of
Infrastructure Against Cyber Threats
(PREDICT) Project
Science and Technology
Directorate, DHS.
ACTION: Response.
AGENCY:
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), Science and Technology
(S&T) published a 60-day public notice
in the Federal Register on December 28,
2011 (Federal Register Volume 76,
Number 249, Docket No. DHS–2011–
0074) to invite public comment on the
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A grassroots working group composed
of stakeholders in information and
communication technology research
(ICTR), with support from the
Homeland Security Advanced Research
Projects Agency (HSARPA) CSD,
developed the Menlo Report. HSARPA
CSD published this report in the
Federal Register in December 2011 (76
FR 81517, Docket No. DHS–2011–0074)
to invite public comment, and sixteen
comments were received. The complete
text of the public comments and the
Federal Register notice are available on
the Regulations.gov web site at https://
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=DHS-2011-0074.
To address the comments, a subset of
the initial working group was assembled
that has stewarded the document since
its inception. In summary, the
comments contained both laudatory and
critical remarks and covered issues that
ranged in scope from targeted to general.
The approach to absorbing this valuable
feedback was to analyze each comment,
distill the issue(s) raised by the
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commenter, reflect on the relevant text
in the Menlo Report, and generate a
response. Those responses entailed
identifying proposed changes intended
to resolve the issues raised, either by
modifying text that was unclear or
misinterpreted by readers or by
accepting constructive criticism.
Changes to the Report
The Menlo Report has been updated
and is available at https://
www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/. Overall, the
changes to the Menlo Report based on
the comments are summarized as
follows:
1. The next version will clarify that
the Menlo Report is not an official
policy statement of DHS and that DHS
does not have the intention or authority
to permit researchers to engage in any
practice in the name of ‘‘ethical
research.’’
2. The next version will reflect that
the main focus of the Menlo Report is
on private sector and academic
researchers who may be government
funded, rather than DHS employees.
While the Menlo Report may certainly
be applicable to government
researchers, it is not intended to conflict
with or preempt statutory or regulatory
requirements placed on government
employees.
3. The next version will explicitly
address the choice of Belmont Report
model instead of an alternative ethical
framework (i.e., a Belmont Report
principles-in-context approach).
Specifically, the next version of the
Menlo Report will clarify the benefit to
society versus the risks to research
subjects under this model.
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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: Monitoring of National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
(OMB No. 0930-0274)--Revision
This proposed project renewal includes the continuation of
previously approved data collection activities Monitoring of National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline Form (OMB No. 0930-0274) in an effort to
advance the understanding of crisis hotline utilization and its impact.
Out of the previously approved 11 data collection instruments and
consents, only 6 will be utilized through this revision. The Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA), Center for
Mental Health Services (CMHS) funds a National Suicide Prevention
Lifeline Network, 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 Monitoring of National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline-- Revision is to examine the impact of
motivational training and safety planning (MI/SP) with callers who have
expressed suicidal desire (i.e., follow-up interviews with callers and
counselors). In total this effort includes three data collection
instruments and three associated data collection consents.
Clearance is being requested to continue the previously approved
data collection activities to continue caller and counselor follow-up
assessment activities which will examine the process and impact of
motivational training and safety planning (MI/SP) with callers who have
expressed suicidal ideation. The data collected through the renewal of
these data collection activities will ultimately help SAMHSA to
understand and direct their crisis hotline lifesaving initiatives. The
data collection activities are enumerated below.
Funded crisis centers will train counselors to implement an
intervention with callers during the initial call to a center, which
incorporates aspects of motivational interviewing and safety planning
(MI/SP) and utilizes an evidence-based practice model to provide
follow-up to callers who have expressed a suicidal desire. An
assessment of MI/SP fidelity and process measures will be incorporated
into the design through the administration of two self-administered
questionnaires to crisis center counselors. The impact assessment of
MI/SP counselor training will include follow-up telephone interviews
with callers to assess their emotions and behaviors following their
interaction with the MI/SP trained counselor.
(1) The MI/SP Counselor Attitude Questionnaire attitude
questionnaire will be administered to counselors at the conclusion of
their MI/SP training and be used as a possible predictor of fidelity of
the MI/SP intervention. Information to be gathered includes (a)
counselors' views of the applicability of the MI/SP for preparing them
to conduct safety planning and follow up with callers; (b) possible
anticipated challenges (i.e., impeding factors) to applying the MI/SP
training in their centers; (c) the relationship of the MI/SP model to
their centers; (d) the extent to which trainees are provided with or
obtain adequate resources to enable them to use MI/SP on the job; (e)
impeding and facilitating factors; and (f) attitudes about counselors'
self-efficacy to use MI/SP and views on its utility. It is expected
that a total of 750 counselors will be trained over the course of 3
years in an effort to maintain 175 counselors at any given time. Thus,
a total of 750 counselors are expected to complete this questionnaire
during the 3-year data collection period. Prior to collecting data from
counselors, crisis counselors must have read and signed the MI/SP
Counselor Consent. This form explains the purpose of the data
collection, privacy, risks and benefits, what the data collection
entails, and participant rights. It is anticipated that 750 consents
and questionnaires will be collected by crisis counselors during the 3-
year data collection period.
(2) At the end of the call and once the counselor deems the
intervention to be complete, counselors will ask all appropriate
callers, using the MI/SP Caller Initial Script, for permission to be
re-contacted by research staff for a follow-up interview. Counselors
will state that the caller may be contacted by the research team if
randomly selected for a follow-up call. A total of 1,500 callers across
the 3-year data collection period will be provided with the MI/SP
Caller Initial Script for their consent to be contacted at a later
time.
(3) Counselors will be asked to complete the MI/SP Counselor
Follow-up Questionnaire for each call that is eligible. The
questionnaire will incorporate an assessment of the outreach,
telephonic follow up and/or other strategies that the center has
proposed to implement, and whether the counselor was able to implement
the center's site plan as originally conceived. The questionnaire will
also include items on the demographic characteristics of the caller,
whether contact was successfully made with the caller, whether the
caller followed through with the safety plan and/or referral given by
the counselor, whether MI/SP was re-implemented during the follow-up
contact, whether another follow-up is scheduled, the educational and
crisis experience of the person attempting re-contact with the caller,
and that person's prior experience with follow-up. Barriers to
implementing the follow-up, as well as types of deviation from the
site's follow-up plan will also be assessed. Open-ended questions about
what led to deviations from the site's follow-up plan will also be
included. In total, it is expected that counselors will complete 3,750
questionnaires across the 3-year data collection period.
(4) Researchers will begin conducting follow-up interviews with
callers
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approximately 6 weeks after the initial call to the center. This
follow-up telephone interview (MI/SP Caller Follow-up Interview) will
be conducted to collect information on demographic characteristics,
gather caller feedback on the initial call made to the center, suicide
risk status at the time of and since the call, current depressive
symptomatology, follow through with the safety plan and referrals made
by the crisis counselor, and barriers to service. Prior to collecting
information during the MI/SP Caller Follow-up Interview, researchers
will read callers the MI/SP Caller Follow-up Consent Script. Taking
into account attrition and the number of callers who do not give
consent, it is expected that the total number of follow-up interviews
conducted by the research team will not exceed 1,107.
The estimated response burden to collect this information is as
follows annualized over the requested 3-year clearance period is
presented below:
Annualized Averages: Respondents, Responses and Hours
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No. of Burden/
Instrument No. of responses per Total number response Annual burden
respondents Respondent * of responses (hours) * (hours)
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MI/SP Caller Initial Script..... 500 1 500 .08 40
MI/SP Caller Follow-up Consent 369 1 369 .17 63
Script.........................
MI/SP Caller Follow-up Interview 369 1 369 .67 247
MI/SP Counselor Consent......... 250 1 250 .08 20
MI/SP Counselor Attitudes 250 1 250 .25 63
Questionnaire..................
MI/SP Counselor Follow-up 250 5 1250 .17 213
Questionnaire..................
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Total....................... 1,988 .............. .............. .............. 646
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* Rounded to the nearest whole number.
Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 2-1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 AND email her a
copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Summer King,
Statistician.
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