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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
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0361.
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
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Proposed Project: Survey of Current
and Alumni SAMHSA Fellows of the
Minority Fellowship Program (MFP)
(OMB No. 0930–0304)—Revision
In 1973, in response to a substantial
lack of ethnic and racial minorities in
the mental health professions, the
Center for Minority Health at the
National Institute of Mental Health
established the MFP. Since the MFP’s
transition to SAMHSA in 1992, the
program has continued to facilitate the
entry of graduate students and
psychiatric residents into mental health
careers and has increased the number of
psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and
social work professionals trained to
provide mental health and substance
abuse services to minority groups. The
traditional MFP offers sustained grants
to six national behavioral health
professional associations: the American
Association of Marriage and Family
Therapy (AAMFT), American Nurses
Association (ANA), American
Psychiatric Association (APsychA),
American Psychological Association
(APA), Council on Social Work
Education (CSWE), and National Board
for Certified Counselors (NBCC) which
administers the program for the NBCC
and the Association for Addiction
Professionals (NAADAC). A seventh
program, offered after the previously
approved surveys, is referred to as The
Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship
Program and is administered by the
American Psychological Association.
This data collection includes two
survey instruments, the Survey of
Current SAMHSA MFP Fellows and the
Survey of Alumni SAMHSA MFP
Fellows. The two online surveys (with
the option for a hard copy mailed
through the U.S. Postal Service) will be
used with the following stakeholders in
the MFP grant programs:
1. Current SAMHSA MFP Fellows
(n=411)
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a. Current MFP fellows (doctoral-level
fellows) and master’s-level fellows
currently receiving support during their
doctoral-level, master’s-level,
psychiatric residency, or certificate
training programs will be asked about
their experiences in the MFP (learning
opportunities and mentoring
experiences in the program through
their participation in professional
development and other various
activities provided by the grantees),
plans for their career beyond the MFP,
and suggestions for improvement of
their MFP experience.
2. MFP Alumni (n=1,280)
a. MFP Alumni who participated in
the MFP during the time the program
was administered by SAMHSA will be
asked about their previous experiences
as fellows in the MFP, their subsequent
involvement and leadership in their
professions, and ways in which the MFP
prepared them for their current
positions.
The information gathered by these
two surveys will be used to document
contributions and impacts of current
and former MFP fellows. The current
fellows survey includes questions to
assess the following measures:
background items on training specialty
and demographics, practicum and
internship experiences, professional
development activities (e.g., number of
certifications obtained, types of
professional development/contributions
to the field such as number of
presentations or publications), and
learning opportunities related to MFP
fellows’ preparation to provide
culturally competent mental and
substance use disorder services to
underserved populations. The alumni
fellows survey includes questions to
measure: background items on
specialization and demographics, status
of degree completion, employment
experiences and settings where
providing culturally competent mental
and substance use disorder services to
underserved populations, contributions
to the field, application of MFP learning
opportunities in current employment
experiences, mentoring and other
support received during the MFP,
satisfaction with their preparation
during MFP for their current
employment or educational placement,
intentions to stay in or leave the
behavioral health field, and suggestions
for improving the MFP.
This request amends the OMB
approval that expired August 31, 2019,
by omitting questions that gathered
information on number of mentors and
total mentored hours; as well as selfreported impacts on current and alumni
fellows such as increased knowledge,
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skills, and aptitude. Both the current
and alumni fellows’ surveys are revised
accordingly. For the alumni survey, the
respondent pool has been limited only
to those who have completed the MFP
within the past five years. Additionally,
to further streamline this data collection
SAMHSA has also deleted eleven other
questions that are not critical to
assessing the program’s progress. In
turn, the following questions have been
added to the survey instruments to help
better assess the program’s progress
with meeting stated goals and plan for
future cohorts of fellows:
(1) Specialization
Response choices were modified and
added to align with position titles in
HRSA’s annual behavioral workforce
survey.
My specialization would best prepare
me/prepared me for positions such as
those held by (check more than one if
applicable):
[ ] Adult psychiatrists
[ ] Child and adolescent psychiatrists
[ ] Psychiatric nurse practitioners
[ ] Physician assistants
[ ] Psychologists
[ ] Social workers
[ ] Marriage and family therapists
[ ] Addictions counselors
[ ] Mental health counselors
[ ] School counselors
[ ] Other: Please specify [text box]
(2) Personal Background
Items and response choices were
added or revised to align with how
these are asked in federal national data
collections (e.g., American Community
Survey or NIH’s PhenX Toolkit).
The next set of questions will help
SAMHSA understand the variation in
responses based on characteristics of
MFP fellows.
(5) What is your gender?
[ ] Male
[ ] Female
[ ] Non-binary, . . . .
[ ] Two-Spirit
[ ] TF (Transgender Female)
[ ] TM (Transgender Male)/
[ ] Other (please specify): [text box] *
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(6) Are you of Hispanic, Latina/Latino,
or Spanish origin? *
[ ] No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or
Spanish origin
[ ] Yes
[ ] Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano
[ ] Puerto Rican
[ ] Cuban
[ ] Another Hispanic, Latino, or
Spanish origin—for example,
Salvadoran, Dominican, Colombian,
Guatemalan, Spaniard, Ecuadorian,
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etc.) [text box] *
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(7) What is your race? For this survey (as
in the U.S. Census), Hispanic origins are
not races. Check all that apply.*
[ ] White—for example, German, Irish,
English, Italian, Lebanese, Egyptian,
etc.
[ ] Black, African American, or African—
for example, African American,
Jamaican, Haitian, Nigerian,
Ethiopian, Somali, etc.
[ ] American Indian or Alaska Native—
Print name of enrolled or principal
tribe(s), for example, Navajo Nation,
Blackfeet Tribe, Mayan, Aztec,
Native Village of Barrow Inupiat
Traditional Government, Nome
Eskimo Community, etc.
[ ] Asian or Asian American
[ ] Chinese
[ ] Filipino
[ ] Asian Indian
[ ] Vietnamese
[ ] Korean
[ ] Japanese
[ ] Other Asian—for example,
Pakistani, Cambodian, Hmong, etc.
[ ] Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro,
Other Pacific Islander—for
example, Tongan, Fijian,
Marshallese, etc.
[ ] Some other race—specify race or
origin:
[ ] Prefer not to answer
The following items will help us
understand the immigrant status of our
trainees and the extent to which we are
diversifying our trainees to respond to
the growing needs of immigrant
families.
(8) Are you from an immigrant family?
[ ] NO
[ ] YES
[ ] Prefer not to answer
a. Was either of your parents born
outside of the U.S.?
[ ] YES, one parent
[ ] YES, both parents
31. Intentions—1
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a. How often do you think about leaving
your job/training program? ...................
b. How often do you think about leaving
for another job/training program in the
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[ ] NO, neither parent
[ ] Prefer not to answer
b. Was at least one of your grandparents
born outside of the U.S.?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
[ ] Prefer not to answer
c. Were you born outside of the U.S.?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(9) List any language(s), other than
English, in which you have at least
minimum professional speaking
proficiency (i.e., can participate
effectively in most formal and informal
conversations on practical and
professional topics). Check all that
apply.*
[ ] English only
[ ] African-other than Amharic (please
specify below)
[ ] Amharic
[ ] Chinese-Mandarin
[ ] Chinese-Other
[ ] French
[ ] German
[ ] Hindi
[ ] Japanese
[ ] Korean
[ ] Kreyol
[ ] Portuguese
[ ] Russian
[ ] Spanish
[ ] Other language (please specify): [text
box]
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(10) Do you have a disability or require
accommodations to perform essential
professional functions? *
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(3) Learning Opportunities
Added items or response choices (e.g.,
use of telehealth) to reflect changes in
behavioral practices and service
delivery due to COVID–19 restrictions.
20. During the past MFP year, as part of
your program, please check the types of
learning opportunities you had for each
of the following topics.
(a) Working with individuals from
racially and ethnically diverse
backgrounds? (Please select all that
apply.)
[ ] Opportunities to learn via telehealth
[ ] Observation of clinical encounters inperson
[ ] Observation of clinical encounters via
telehealth
[ ] Clinical experience with the
population(s)
[ ] Education about the CLAS standards
and their impact on the delivery of
care
[ ] Instruction in cultural humility/
competence and its impact on the
delivery of care
[ ] Distance learning (virtual learning,
web-based learning)
[ ] Supervision of the clinical experience
with the population(s)
(4) Intentions to Stay/Leave Behavioral
Health Field (Alumni Only)
Additional items were added to better
understand how the stress and burnout
being witnessed in the health care
workforce generally and behavioral
health workforce in particular (due to
COVID–19 pandemic) may have
impacted alumni fellows’ intentions to
stay in or leave the field.
The following questions ask about
your intentions to stay in the mental or
behavioral health field. Using the scales
provided, indicate how often you think
about leaving and the likelihood that
you would leave.
(31) Do you consider your current job/
practice/training as in the mental and
behavioral health field?
l No: Which field are you in? TEXT
BOX (then skip to Q34)
l Yes (ANSWER INTENTIONS 1 and 2
below)
1—Never
2—A few
times a year
or less
3—Once a
month or
less
4—A few
times a
month
5—Once a
week
6—A few
times a
week
7—Every
day
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
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32. Intentions—2
1—
Extremely
unlikely
2—Very
unlikely
3—Somewhat
unlikely
4—Neutral/
Unsure
5—Somewhat likely
6—Very
likely
7—Extremely
likely
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b
a. How likely is it that you will
search for a job in the same primary role—e.g., clinical care,
practice, teaching, research, prevention, administration/policy development? ...................................
b. How likely is it that you will actually leave the mental and behavioral health field next year? ..........
(33) If you are considering leaving the
(34) What changes are needed that
Burden Estimate
mental and behavioral health field,
would convince you to stay? [Limit
The total annual burden estimate for
what is/are the primary driver(s)?
characters to 450]
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Number of
respondents
Survey name
Total number
of responses
Hours per
response
Total
burden hours
SAMHSA MFP Current Fellows Survey ..............................
SAMHSA MFP Alumni Survey .............................................
411
1,280
1
1
411
1,280
0.42
0.42
173
538
Totals ............................................................................
a 1,691
........................
1,691
........................
711
a This
is an unduplicated count of total respondents.
Send comments to Carlos Graham,
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 15–E57, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857 OR email a copy
at carlos.graham@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Written comments should be received
by December 22, 2023.
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Public Health Advisor
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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
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Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-0361.
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: Survey of Current and Alumni SAMHSA Fellows of the
Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) (OMB No. 0930-0304)--Revision
In 1973, in response to a substantial lack of ethnic and racial
minorities in the mental health professions, the Center for Minority
Health at the National Institute of Mental Health established the MFP.
Since the MFP's transition to SAMHSA in 1992, the program has continued
to facilitate the entry of graduate students and psychiatric residents
into mental health careers and has increased the number of psychology,
psychiatry, nursing, and social work professionals trained to provide
mental health and substance abuse services to minority groups. The
traditional MFP offers sustained grants to six national behavioral
health professional associations: the American Association of Marriage
and Family Therapy (AAMFT), American Nurses Association (ANA), American
Psychiatric Association (APsychA), American Psychological Association
(APA), Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and National Board for
Certified Counselors (NBCC) which administers the program for the NBCC
and the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC). A seventh
program, offered after the previously approved surveys, is referred to
as The Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program and is
administered by the American Psychological Association.
This data collection includes two survey instruments, the Survey of
Current SAMHSA MFP Fellows and the Survey of Alumni SAMHSA MFP Fellows.
The two online surveys (with the option for a hard copy mailed through
the U.S. Postal Service) will be used with the following stakeholders
in the MFP grant programs:
1. Current SAMHSA MFP Fellows (n=411)
a. Current MFP fellows (doctoral-level fellows) and master's-level
fellows currently receiving support during their doctoral-level,
master's-level, psychiatric residency, or certificate training programs
will be asked about their experiences in the MFP (learning
opportunities and mentoring experiences in the program through their
participation in professional development and other various activities
provided by the grantees), plans for their career beyond the MFP, and
suggestions for improvement of their MFP experience.
2. MFP Alumni (n=1,280)
a. MFP Alumni who participated in the MFP during the time the
program was administered by SAMHSA will be asked about their previous
experiences as fellows in the MFP, their subsequent involvement and
leadership in their professions, and ways in which the MFP prepared
them for their current positions.
The information gathered by these two surveys will be used to
document contributions and impacts of current and former MFP fellows.
The current fellows survey includes questions to assess the following
measures: background items on training specialty and demographics,
practicum and internship experiences, professional development
activities (e.g., number of certifications obtained, types of
professional development/contributions to the field such as number of
presentations or publications), and learning opportunities related to
MFP fellows' preparation to provide culturally competent mental and
substance use disorder services to underserved populations. The alumni
fellows survey includes questions to measure: background items on
specialization and demographics, status of degree completion,
employment experiences and settings where providing culturally
competent mental and substance use disorder services to underserved
populations, contributions to the field, application of MFP learning
opportunities in current employment experiences, mentoring and other
support received during the MFP, satisfaction with their preparation
during MFP for their current employment or educational placement,
intentions to stay in or leave the behavioral health field, and
suggestions for improving the MFP.
This request amends the OMB approval that expired August 31, 2019,
by omitting questions that gathered information on number of mentors
and total mentored hours; as well as self-reported impacts on current
and alumni fellows such as increased knowledge, skills, and aptitude.
Both the current and alumni fellows' surveys are revised accordingly.
For the alumni survey, the respondent pool has been limited only to
those who have completed the MFP within the past five years.
Additionally, to further streamline this data collection SAMHSA has
also deleted eleven other questions that are not critical to assessing
the program's progress. In turn, the following questions have been
added to the survey instruments to help better assess the program's
progress with meeting stated goals and plan for future cohorts of
fellows:
(1) Specialization
Response choices were modified and added to align with position
titles in HRSA's annual behavioral workforce survey.
My specialization would best prepare me/prepared me for positions
such as those held by (check more than one if applicable):
[ ] Adult psychiatrists
[ ] Child and adolescent psychiatrists
[ ] Psychiatric nurse practitioners
[ ] Physician assistants
[ ] Psychologists
[ ] Social workers
[ ] Marriage and family therapists
[ ] Addictions counselors
[ ] Mental health counselors
[ ] School counselors
[ ] Other: Please specify [text box]
(2) Personal Background
Items and response choices were added or revised to align with how
these are asked in federal national data collections (e.g., American
Community Survey or NIH's PhenX Toolkit).
The next set of questions will help SAMHSA understand the variation
in responses based on characteristics of MFP fellows.
(5) What is your gender?
[ ] Male
[ ] Female
[ ] Non-binary, . . . .
[ ] Two-Spirit
[ ] TF (Transgender Female)
[ ] TM (Transgender Male)/
[ ] Other (please specify): [text box] *
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(6) Are you of Hispanic, Latina/Latino, or Spanish origin? *
[ ] No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
[ ] Yes
[ ] Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano
[ ] Puerto Rican
[ ] Cuban
[ ] Another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin--for example,
Salvadoran, Dominican, Colombian, Guatemalan, Spaniard, Ecuadorian,
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etc.) [text box] *
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(7) What is your race? For this survey (as in the U.S. Census),
Hispanic origins are not races. Check all that apply.*
[ ] White--for example, German, Irish, English, Italian, Lebanese,
Egyptian, etc.
[ ] Black, African American, or African--for example, African American,
Jamaican, Haitian, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Somali, etc.
[ ] American Indian or Alaska Native--Print name of enrolled or
principal tribe(s), for example, Navajo Nation, Blackfeet Tribe, Mayan,
Aztec, Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government, Nome
Eskimo Community, etc.
[ ] Asian or Asian American
[ ] Chinese
[ ] Filipino
[ ] Asian Indian
[ ] Vietnamese
[ ] Korean
[ ] Japanese
[ ] Other Asian--for example, Pakistani, Cambodian, Hmong, etc.
[ ] Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro, Other Pacific Islander--for
example, Tongan, Fijian, Marshallese, etc.
[ ] Some other race--specify race or origin:
[ ] Prefer not to answer
The following items will help us understand the immigrant status of
our trainees and the extent to which we are diversifying our trainees
to respond to the growing needs of immigrant families.
(8) Are you from an immigrant family?
[ ] NO
[ ] YES
[ ] Prefer not to answer
a. Was either of your parents born outside of the U.S.?
[ ] YES, one parent
[ ] YES, both parents
[ ] NO, neither parent
[ ] Prefer not to answer
b. Was at least one of your grandparents born outside of the U.S.?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
[ ] Prefer not to answer
c. Were you born outside of the U.S.?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(9) List any language(s), other than English, in which you have at
least minimum professional speaking proficiency (i.e., can participate
effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and
professional topics). Check all that apply.*
[ ] English only
[ ] African-other than Amharic (please specify below)
[ ] Amharic
[ ] Chinese-Mandarin
[ ] Chinese-Other
[ ] French
[ ] German
[ ] Hindi
[ ] Japanese
[ ] Korean
[ ] Kreyol
[ ] Portuguese
[ ] Russian
[ ] Spanish
[ ] Other language (please specify): [text box]
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(10) Do you have a disability or require accommodations to perform
essential professional functions? *
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Prefer not to answer
(3) Learning Opportunities
Added items or response choices (e.g., use of telehealth) to
reflect changes in behavioral practices and service delivery due to
COVID-19 restrictions.
20. During the past MFP year, as part of your program, please check the
types of learning opportunities you had for each of the following
topics.
(a) Working with individuals from racially and ethnically diverse
backgrounds? (Please select all that apply.)
[ ] Opportunities to learn via telehealth
[ ] Observation of clinical encounters in-person
[ ] Observation of clinical encounters via telehealth
[ ] Clinical experience with the population(s)
[ ] Education about the CLAS standards and their impact on the delivery
of care
[ ] Instruction in cultural humility/competence and its impact on the
delivery of care
[ ] Distance learning (virtual learning, web-based learning)
[ ] Supervision of the clinical experience with the population(s)
(4) Intentions to Stay/Leave Behavioral Health Field (Alumni Only)
Additional items were added to better understand how the stress and
burnout being witnessed in the health care workforce generally and
behavioral health workforce in particular (due to COVID-19 pandemic)
may have impacted alumni fellows' intentions to stay in or leave the
field.
The following questions ask about your intentions to stay in the
mental or behavioral health field. Using the scales provided, indicate
how often you think about leaving and the likelihood that you would
leave.
(31) Do you consider your current job/practice/training as in the
mental and behavioral health field?
_ No: Which field are you in? TEXT BOX (then skip to Q34)
_ Yes (ANSWER INTENTIONS 1 and 2 below)
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2--A few 3--Once a 4--A few
31. Intentions--1 1--Never times a year month or times a 5--Once a 6--A few 7--Every day
or less less month week times a week
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a. How often do you think about leaving your job/ [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot]
training program?....................................
b. How often do you think about leaving for another [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot]
job/training program in the field?...................
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1--
32. Intentions--2 Extremely 2--Very 3--Somewhat 4--Neutral/ 5--Somewhat 6--Very 7--Extremely
unlikely unlikely unlikely Unsure likely likely likely
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a. How likely is it that you will search for a [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot]
job in the same primary role--e.g., clinical
care, practice, teaching, research, prevention,
administration/policy development?.............
b. How likely is it that you will actually leave [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot] [ballot]
the mental and behavioral health field next
year?..........................................
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(33) If you are considering leaving the mental and behavioral health
field, what is/are the primary driver(s)?
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(34) What changes are needed that would convince you to stay? [Limit
characters to 450]
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Burden Estimate
The total annual burden estimate for conducting the surveys is
shown below:
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Number of Responses per Total number Hours per Total burden
Survey name respondents respondent of responses response hours
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SAMHSA MFP Current Fellows 411 1 411 0.42 173
Survey.........................
SAMHSA MFP Alumni Survey........ 1,280 1 1,280 0.42 538
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Totals...................... \a\ 1,691 .............. 1,691 .............. 711
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\a\ This is an unduplicated count of total respondents.
Send comments to Carlos Graham, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 15-E57, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 OR email a copy at
[email protected]. Written comments should be received by
December 22, 2023.
Alicia Broadus,
Public Health Advisor
[FR Doc. 2023-23319 Filed 10-20-23; 8:45 am]
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