[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 106 (Thursday, June 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35094-35095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13650]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30 DAY-39-00]


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 Projects

    1. The State and Local Area Integrated Survey (SLAITS)--(0920-0406) 
The Health Resources and Services Administration/Maternal and Child 
Health Bureau, in partnership with the National Center for Health 
Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is 
conducting a new national survey on children with special health care 
needs (CSHCN) to be conducted in all states and the District of 
Columbia. The survey is part of NCHS's State and Local Area Integrated 
Telephone Survey (SLAITS), a telephone survey platform which uses the 
National Immunization Survey sample frame and was described in a 
Federal Register notice dated October 22, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 204, 
pages 56654-56655). This collection of data is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
242k.
    The survey will provide, for the first time, uniform national and 
state-specific data on CSHCN prevalence and impact. In addition, the 
survey will provide baseline estimates for federal and state 
performance measures, the year 2010 national prevention objectives, and 
data for each State's Title V five-year needs assessment. Health care 
coverage information will be collected on children with and without 
special health care needs. Those without any health care coverage will 
be asked a brief set of questions about their familiarity with the 
State Children's Health Insurance Program.
    A screening interview will be completed with parents and guardians 
in randomly selected households in order to identify children (0-17 
years of age) with special health care needs. This initial screening 
interview will include a brief battery of questions about the presence 
of special health care needs, as well as demographic questions needed 
to manage the sample design and estimation process. Approximately 14% 
to 18% of the screened children are expected to have a special health 
care need. When a child is identified with a special need, a 15-minute 
supplemental interview will be completed, including questions on 
demographics and household income; health and functional status; health 
insurance; adequacy of health care coverage; access to care; 
utilization of care; care coordination; satisfaction with care; and 
impact on the family. For screened children who do not have special 
health care needs, a sub-sample of parents and guardians will complete 
a short supplemental interview on health insurance so that state-
specific estimates of health insurance coverage for all children can be 
produced.
    Screening interviews will be conducted with about 3,400 families in 
each state with a goal of identifying 750 children with special health 
care needs. This sample size will permit accurate and reliable state-
level estimates of the prevalence of special health care needs and of 
associated characteristics such as insurance coverage. State samples of 
3,000 children without special health care needs will be asked health 
insurance coverage questions and about 26,000 families will be asked 
SCHIP awareness questions. The survey is scheduled to begin in July, 
2000, and will remain in the field for 12 months. There is no dollar 
cost to respondents. The approved burden budget for SLAITS includes the 
burden hours for this survey. The total burden hours are estimated at 
34,819.

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                                                                      No. of      Average burden/
                   Respondents                        No. of        responses/        response     Total  burden
                                                    respondents     respondents      (in hrs.)       (in hrs.)
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Screened Households.............................         102,479               1            6/60          18,248
Families of children with special health care             39,750               1           15/60           9,938
 needs..........................................
Families of children without special health care         159,000               1            2/60           5,300
 needs--insurance status........................
SCHIP for uninsured children....................          26,659               1            3/60           1,333
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      Total.....................................  ..............  ..............  ..............          34,819
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    Dated: May 25, 2000.
Charles W. Gollmar,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-13650 Filed 5-31-00; 8:45 am]
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