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... The overall effort is being overseen by the Standing Committee on Integrating New Behavioral Health Measures into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Data Collection Programs.1 In addition to the topics covered by this workshop, SAMHSA and ASPE are interested in expanding data collection on serious emotional disturbance in children, on specific mental illness diagnoses with functional 1  For a description of the overall study, see http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/ CNSTAT/Behavioral_Health_Measures_Committee/index.htm [March 2016]
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... WORKSHOP FOCUS Neil Russell (SAMHSA) described his agency's goals in exploring how to best measure and expand SAMHSA's data collection programs to include measures of recovery from substance use or mental disorders.
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... The periodicity of the data collection has not been determined yet, and SAMHSA would like input on the ideal frequency for this subject matter. SAMHSA has considered several possible data collections approaches, Russell said.
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... WORKSHOP CHARGE The specific statement of task for the workshop, shown in Box 1-2, was developed on the basis of the charge for the overall project, which was to expand data collections on several behavioral health topics. The main goals of the workshop were to discuss options for collecting data and producing estimates of recovery from substance use and mental disorders, including available measures and associated possible data collection mechanisms.
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... Possibilities include adding new measures to existing surveys, initiating new data collections, or implementing model-based estimation procedures that take advantage of existing data sources, in the event that pri mary data collection methods are cost-prohibitive or not necessary. Survey and questionnaire design tradeoffs, as well as the potential impact of any changes to existing surveys, will also be discussed.
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