[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 126 (Tuesday, July 1, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35500-35501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17127]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-14-97]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Office on (404) 639-7090. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    1. Prospective Evaluation of Health-Care Workers Exposed to Blood 
From Patients Infected with HIV--(0920-0131)--Reinstatement--The HIV 
Infections Branch, Hospital Infections Program (HIP), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to continue surveillance of 
health-care workers (HCWs) exposed to the blood of persons infected 
with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This prospective evaluation, 
initiated in August 1983, provides essential scientific information on 
the risk of HIV transmission in the health care setting. The objectives 
of the project are to: (1)estimate the risk of HIV infection in HCWs 
exposed via the percutaneous, mucous-membrane, or skin route to HIV 
infected blood, according to type of exposure; (2) describe the type of 
devices and circumstances of the exposures sustained by HCWs; (3) 
describe the clinical natural history and development of laboratory 
markers of HIV infection in HCWs enrolled in this project who 
seroconvert to HIV; and, (4) describe the use of post-exposure 
chemoprophylaxis by HCWs exposed to HIV infected blood.
    The design of this voluntary surveillance includes enrollment of 
participating institutions (respondents) throughout the United States. 
In the event that an HCW employed at the facility sustains an eligible 
exposure to HIV infected blood, the HCW is enrolled and followed 
prospectively. Epidemiologic data and serum for HIV antibody testing 
are collected within 30 days after the exposure with follow-up visits 
and serum samples collected at 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 12 months from the 
date of the exposure.
    The number of respondents is the expected number of institutions 
participating in the project annually. The number of responses is based 
on the average number of forms which will be completed during each 
year. The 250 HCWs enrolled each year will each need three Follow-up 
forms completed. The number of Reports of Antiviral Prophylaxis is 
based on the proportion of HCWs expected to be prescribed antiviral 
prophylaxis (approximately 50%). The total annual burden hours are 198.

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                                                                             No. of    Avg. burden/     Total   
                         Respondent                             No. of     responses/  response (in   burden (in
                                                             respondents   respondent      hrs.)        hrs.)   
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Initial Case Report Form...................................          250            1        0.25             63
Follow-up Form.............................................          250            3        0.1666          125
Antiviral Prophylaxis Rpt..................................          125            1        0.083            10
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    2. 1998 Alternative School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (0920-0258)--
New--The Division of Adolescent and School Health, in the National 
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requests OMB Clearance 
to conduct a survey among alternative secondary school students of 
priority health risk behaviors related to the major preventable causes 
of mortality, morbidity, and social problems among both youth and 
adults in the U.S. The OMB clearance currently in effect for Youth Risk 
Behaviors Survey (YRBS) (0920-0258, expiration 10/97) is a national 
survey done biennially among students attending regular public, 
private, and Catholic schools in grades 9-12. This request is to 
conduct a YRBS in 1998 among a nationally representative sample of 
students in alternative schools, which have been excluded from the 
national school-based YRBS in the past. Alternative schools, which 
represent about 5% of U.S. high schools, serve students primarily who 
are at risk of not progressing in regular high schools and, as a 
result, not graduating, as well as students who have already gotten 
into disciplinary trouble, usually related to drug use or violence. 
Data on the health risk behaviors of adolescents is the focus of at 
least 26 national health objectives in Healthy People 2000: Midcourse 
Review and 1995 Revisions. This survey will provide data to help 
measure these objectives among alternative school students. No other 
national source of data exists for this population. The data also will 
have significant implications for policy and program development in 
alternative schools. The total annual burden hours are 7,628.

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                                                                           Number of   Avg. burden/     Total   
                        Respondents                           Number of    responses/  response (in   burden (in
                                                             respondents   respondent      hrs.)        hrs.)   
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Alternative school students................................       10,000            1          0.75        7,500
Education Officials........................................          256            1          0.5           128
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Wilma G. Johnson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-17127 Filed 6-30-97; 8:45 am]
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