[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2892-2893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1436]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Collection; Comment Request; California Health Interview 
Survey--Complementary and Alternative Medicine

SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement of section 2506(c)(2)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment 
on proposed data collection projects, the National Cancer Institute 
(NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish periodic 
summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.

PROPOSED COLLECTION: Title: California Health Interview Survey--
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CHIS-CAM). Type of Information 
Collection Request: New. Need and Use of Information Collection. The 
NCI has sponsored a Cancer Control Topical Module (CCTM) to the 
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), administered in 2001. The 
CHIS is a telephone survey designed to provide population-based, 
standardized health-related data. Initiated by the UCLA Center for 
Health Policy Research, California Department of Health Services, and 
the Public Health Institute, the survey was unfunded by a number of 
public and private sources.
    The 2001 CHIS CCTM was similar in content to the 2000 National 
Health Interview Survey (NHIS) CCTM and was administered to one sample 
adult in more than 54,000 households. NCI anticipates comparing the 
CHIS and NHIS data in order to conduct comparative and pooled analyses 
that will enable better estimates of health-related behaviors and 
cancer risk factor for smaller racial/ethnic minority populations.
    The CHIS-CAM is a cross-sectional telephone survey nested in the 
CHIS study population of all adult respondents who agreed to be re-
contacted. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a rapidly 
growing component of prevention and treatment of chronic illness in the 
United States. Yet the study of cancer has been largely excluded from 
the existing population-based surveys on CAM due to sample size 
restrictions, and little reliable information exists on how CAM 
utilization varies among different ethnic groups and among those with 
chronic illnesses.
    The CHIS-CAM survey will be administered to approximately 2,000

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cancer survivors and 6,000 non-cancer adults. It will enable NCI to 
collect extensive information on CAM, cancer and other chronic 
illnesses, and link it with the breadth of basic data already collected 
from the large, racially and ethnically diverse sample of CHIS 
respondents.
    Comprehensive and detailed collection of information on CAM will 
enable NCI to increase its understanding of how, why, and to what 
effect CAM is used. The CHIS-CAM survey data will allow NCI to compare 
individuals who report various types of cancer and other chronic 
conditions and to determine: (1) The major categories of CAM procedures 
being used, as well as the specific therapies targeted toward cancer 
prevention and treatment, (2) how various subgroups in the population 
(defined by race/ethnicity, gender, age, health status, etc.) compare 
with regards to CAM procedures being used; (3) to what extent persons 
with cancer used specific types of CAM before or after diagnoses with 
cancer, and whether cancer patients used CAM in place of, or in 
addition to, conventional medical care; (4) whether systematic CAM 
treatments for cancer might lead to harm or interact with conventional 
treatments for cancer; and (5) what expenditures people are paying out-
of-pocket for CAM procedures. Frequency of Response: One-time. Affected 
public: Individuals. Types of respondents: U.S. adults. The annual 
reporting burden is as follows:

                        Table A--Annualized Burden Estimates for CHIS-CAM Data Collection
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                                                 Estimated      Estimated no.    Average burden  Estimated total
             Type of respondents                 number of       of responses      hours per      annual burden
                                                respondents     per respondent      response     hour  requested
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U.S. Adults.................................           8,000                1              .35            2,800
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    There is no annualized cost to respondents. There are no Capital 
Costs to report. There are no Operating or Maintenance Costs to report.

Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) The 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information including the validity of the methodology and 
assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize the burden 
of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instruments, contact Anita Ambs, Project Coordinator, National Cancer 
Institute, EPN 4106, 6130 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda Maryland 20892-
7344, or call non-toll free number (301) 451-8500 or email your 
request, including your address to [email protected].

COMMENTS DUE DATE: Comments regarding this information collection are 
best assured of having their full effect if received within 60 days 
from the date of this publication.

    Dated: January 10, 2002.
Reesa L. Nichols,
NCI Project Clearance Liaison.
[FR Doc. 02-1436 Filed 1-18-02; 8:45 am]
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