[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 227 (Monday, November 25, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70601-70602]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-29803]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-03-14]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports 
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: A Community-based Intervention Model to Promote 
Neighborhood Participation in the Reduction of Aedes aegypti Larval 
Indices in Puerto Rico--New--National Center for Infectious Diseases 
(NCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Aedes 
aegypti mosquito transmits dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease of 
the tropics. The symptoms of dengue disease include fever, headache, 
rash, retro-orbital pain, myalgias, arthralgias, nausea or vomiting, 
abdominal pain, and hemorrhagic manifestations.
    Since there is no vaccine available to prevent dengue, prevention 
efforts are directed to control the vector mosquito. The limited 
efficacy of insecticides in preventing disease transmission has 
prompted the search for new approaches involving community 
participation.

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    Research in Puerto Rico, where dengue is endemic and intermittently 
epidemic, has shown that levels of awareness about dengue are very high 
in the population and that the next step should be the translation of 
this knowledge into practice (behavior change). To achieve this goal a 
model of community participation to prevent and control dengue should 
be developed. This model of community participation must be an 
effectively implemented prevention project.
    The objective of the dengue prevention project is to develop and 
evaluate a community-based participation intervention model that will 
reduce Aedes aegypti infestation in a community in Puerto Rico. To 
accomplish this two comparable communities in the San Juan, Puerto Rico 
area will be selected for this study. One community will be a ``control 
community'' and the second community will be an ``intervened 
community.'' Entomologic surveys and person-to-person interviews to 
assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) will be conducted 
during the project in both communities. The entomologic surveys and 
person-to-person interviews will be conducted 3 times during the 
project: the beginning of the project, the end of the first year of the 
project, and 18 months after the beginning of the project.
    An additional interview will also be conducted in the intervened 
community to assess the function and significance of artificial 
containers that hold water. An ethnographic assessment will be 
performed to determine the resources and needs of the intervened 
community. The specific dengue prevention activities that the 
intervened community will perform will be based on results of the 
initial entomologic survey, KAP, function and significance of 
artificial containers, and the ethnographic assessment of the 
community. There is no cost to respondents.

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                                                                     Number of    Average burden/
                   Respondents                       Number of      responses/     response  (in   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        hours)        (in hours)
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Intervened Community............................             100               4           45/60             300
Control Community...............................             100               3           45/60             225
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Total...........................................  ..............  ..............  ..............             525
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    Dated: November 15, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-29803 Filed 11-22-02; 8:45 am]
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