[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 127 (Friday, June 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 40671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16551]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301)-443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: Increasing Donor Awareness on College Campuses: 
New

    Despite apparent widespread public support for organ donation and 
transplantation, few individuals in the United States declare intent to 
be organ and tissue donors. Innovative interventions are necessary to 
help individuals move from positive attitudes about organ donation to 
the behaviors of declaring intent and informing family of that intent. 
The goal of the current project is to develop, implement and evaluate a 
donor awareness program on college and university campuses. The 
specific aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of a 6-month 
college-wide intervention program on organ donation intentions. An 
experimental design will be used consisting of two pairs of colleges 
matched on variables including freshman class size, geographic region, 
and cultural diversity of the student body. The study will use a 2 
(Intervention  x  Control) by 2 (baseline and follow-up assessment) 
repeated measures design. To increase donor awareness, intervention 
schools will receive a ``how to kit'' to aid them in implementing a 
campus-wide donor campaign. This kit will provide materials and 
activities, and serve as a guide for initiating an organ and tissue 
donor awareness campaign. The kits will be standardized across schools. 
Donation intentions and other variables of interest will be assessed by 
means of self-administered questionnaires completed by a sample of 
students at each university at two time periods, prior to and following 
the 6-month intervention period. The frequency of students declaring 
intent to donate organs and documenting that intent via college student 
identification cards or donor cards is the primary outcome measure. The 
frequency of students reporting that they have informed family members 
of their donation intent also will be evaluated. In addition, secondary 
and process outcomes (e.g., levels of readiness to become an organ 
donor) will be assessed.
    The estimated respondent burden is as follows:

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                                      No. of       Responses per       Total       Average time    Total burden
          Survey phase              Respondents     respondent       responses     per response        hours
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Baseline........................           4,000               1           4,000              .3             680
Followup........................           2,800               1           2,800              .3             476
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    Total.......................           4,000  ..............           6,800  ..............           1,156
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
John Morrall, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: June 23, 2000.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 00-16551 Filed 6-29-00; 8:45 am]
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