[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1639-1640]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-566]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-10-00]


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 Officer at (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. Studies Safety for Workers' Eyes: Testing the Effectiveness of 
Theoretically-Based Eye Injury Prevention Messages--NEW--National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)--Despite evidence 
that at least 90% of workplace eye injuries are preventable, safety eye 
wear use among workers is disappointingly low. According to the 
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and 
results from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey Occupation 
Health Supplement, more than 600,000 occupational eye injuries occur 
annually. Sixteen percent of eye injuries occur among construction with 
carpenters being at particular risk given the nature of their work.
    Research has been conducted on the nature and extent of eye 
injuries among workers, but few studies have explored the behavioral 
aspects of the use of safety eye wear. To date, no one has used 
behavioral theory to examine the use of safety eye wear among union 
carpenters or develop a program that would increase safety eye wear 
use.
    The goals of this investigation are to: (1) estimate the number of 
carpenters who are currently wearing protective eye wear by direct 
observation and pre-intervention survey in the study sample; (2) 
develop an eye wear safety promotion campaign geared toward carpenters, 
their first-line supervisors, and contractors based on results from 
focus groups and using the theory of planned behavior; (3) increase the 
use of protective eye wear among carpenters by administering the eye 
safety messages to carpenters, their first-line supervisors, and 
contractors; and (4) determine the effectiveness of the messages by 
comparing the use of safety eye wear among carpenters before and after 
the campaign by direct observation, post-intervention survey, and focus 
groups.
    The pre- and post-intervention survey instruments will assess 
carpenters' use of eye wear before and after the health communication 
message. In addition, based on the theory of planned behavior, the 
questionnaire will address workers behavioral intentions, attitudes, 
subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control.
    Using a quasi-experimental design, the data collected in this study 
will assess the effectiveness of theory-based messages to increase the 
use of safety eye wear when compared to a control group. This 
information will provide public health investigators as well as 
carpenter safety officers with a theory-driven effective eye injury 
prevention program and the tools to implement it. The total annual 
burden hours is 0.

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                                                                                   Number of     Average  burden/
                         Respondents                              Number of        responses/      response  (in
                                                                 respondents       respondent         hrs.)
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Carpenters...................................................             150                2              .33
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    Dated: January 5, 2000.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-566 Filed 1-10-00; 8:45 am]
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