[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 71 (Thursday, April 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 18946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9071]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30 DAY-23-01]


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: 2nd Injury Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS2)--
New--The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC)--This project will 
use data from a telephone survey to measure injury-related risk factors 
and guide injury prevention and control priorities, including those 
identified as priorities in Healthy People 2010 objectives for the 
nation. Injuries are a major cause of premature death and disability 
with associated economic costs over 150 billion dollars in lifetime 
costs for persons injured each year. Healthy People 2010 objectives and 
the recent report from the Institute of Medicine, Reducing the Burden 
of Injury, call for reducing this toll. In addition to national 
efforts, NCIPC funds injury control programs at the state and local 
levels. These programs need data both to establish their prevention 
priorities and monitor their performance. The use of outcome data 
(e.g., fatal injuries) for measuring program effectiveness is 
problematic because cause-specific events are relatively rare and 
because data on critical risk factors (e.g., was a helmet worn in a 
fatal bike crash, was a smoke detector present at a fatal fire?) are 
often missing. Because these risk factors are early in the causal chain 
of injury, they are what injury control programs target to prevent 
injuries. Accordingly, monitoring the level of injury risk factors in a 
population can help programs set priorities and evaluate interventions.
    The first Injury Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS), conducted in 
1994, was a random digit dial telephone survey that collected injury 
risk factor and demographic data on 5,238 English and Spanish speaking 
adults (18 yrs-old) in the United States. Proxy data were 
collected on 3,541 children 15 years old. More than a dozen peer-
reviewed scientific reports have been published from the ICARIS data, 
on subjects including dog bites, bicycle helmet use, residential smoke 
detector usage and fire escape practices, attitudes towards violence, 
suicidal ideation and behavior, and compliance with pediatric injury 
prevention counseling. Five years have elapsed since ICARIS, and a 
repeat survey is needed for monitoring the injury risk factor status of 
the nation at the start of the millennium. Further, by using data 
collected in ICARIS as a baseline, ICARIS2 can measure changes and 
gauge the impact of injury prevention policies. ICARIS2 may also serve 
as the only readily available source of data to measure several of the 
Healthy People 2010 injury prevention objectives. The total burden 
hours is estimated to be 5,897.

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                                                                                     Number of      Avg. burden
                      Respondents screening                          Number of      responses/     per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)
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Non-households..................................................           5,800               1          0.5/60
Unable to reach sampled adult after 6 attempts..................           2,100               6            2/60
Refusals........................................................           1,800               3            3/60
Break-offs......................................................             675               1            5/60
CATI-Survey
Completed Interviews............................................           8,500               1           35/60
Supplemental Questions..........................................           8,500               1            1/60
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    Dated: April 6, 2001.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 01-9071 Filed 4-11-01; 8:45 am]
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