OPRE Study: Survey of National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adopted Youth, Young Adults, Adults and Adoptive Parents [Descriptive Study]
ICR 202103-0970-004
OMB: 0970-0555
Federal Form Document
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OPRE Study: Survey of
National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adopted
Youth, Young Adults, Adults and Adoptive Parents [Descriptive
Study]
No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
No
Regular
03/10/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/2021
09/30/2021
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The Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
seeks approval for a one-time study to examine familial outcomes 8
or more years after a child’s adoption from the child welfare
system. The primary objective of this study design is to understand
the extent of post adoption instability events that occur in
families who have adopted children who have exited the foster care
system. Post adoption instability refers to situations in which
children who exit foster care to adoptive homes no longer reside
with their adoptive parents and includes formal events, such as a
child’s reentry into the foster care system, or informal events,
such as a child going to live with a grandparent or running away. A
second objective is to understand risk and protective factors
associated with post adoption instability. The study will conduct
web or telephone surveys with adopted youth, young adults, and
adults as well as their adoptive parents who were participants in
the first or second cohort of the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW I, II; OMB #0970-0202). Since initial
approval, the project team pre-tested the surveys and programmed
them. Through pretesting, areas were identified in both instruments
where terms could be clarified or defined, item language re-worded
to increase respondent comprehension, and response options that
needed to be consolidated or expanded to better represent
respondent experiences. Pretest results also indicated that the
surveys were too long and could benefit from eliminating low
priority items to reduce respondent burden. Programming the
instruments for web and telephone administration identified areas
where item wording or response options should be changed to support
a telephone administration mode and areas where routing logic could
be more clearly specified. As a result of pretesting and
programming, we request nonsubstantive changes to the SAY
(Instrument 1) and the SAP (Instrument 2).
US Code:
42 USC 5101–5116i Name of Law: Child Abuse Prevention and
Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978
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;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
PAGI Adoption_OMB_NonSub Change Request Memo_3-10-21_final.docx
Survey of NSCAW Adoptive Parents (Instrument 2)