The Health Center Patient Survey will gather information that will assist policymakers assessment of how well HRSA supported health centers are able to meet health care needs and complement data that are not routinely collected from other HRSA data sources. The cognitive pre-test will refine and test the survey instrument, test the survey sampling methodologies and procedures before it is implemented nationally. The respondents are Health Center patients from different racial/ethnic backgrounds.
The 2014 Health Center Patient Survey (herein referred to as the HCPS) will collect nationally in-depth information about Section 330-funded health center patients, their health status, the reasons they seek care at the health centers, their diagnoses, the services they utilize at HCs and elsewhere, the quality of those services, and their satisfaction with the care they receive, through personal interviews of a stratified random sample of HC patients. Interviews conducted in the national study are estimated to take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes each.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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