[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 5 (Wednesday, January 8, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1065-1066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-326]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-03-33]


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: The Second Injury Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS 
2) Phase 2--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 of 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 prevention 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 
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 Factor 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 (greater than or equal to 18 years 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 
toward violence, suicidal ideation and behavior, and compliance with 
pediatric injury prevention counseling.
    ICARIS-2, a national telephone survey about injury, which began in 
the summer of 2000, has collected data on more than 8,700 of the 
targeted 10,200 respondents to date. The first phase of the survey was 
initiated as a means for monitoring the injury risk factor status of 
the nation at the start of the millennium. The second phase of the 
survey is needed to expand knowledge in areas investigators could not 
fully explore, previously. By using data collected in ICARIS as a 
baseline, data collected in ICARIS-2 Phase-2 will be used along with 
data currently being collected (ICARIS-2 Phase-1) to measure changes 
and gauge the impact of injury prevention policies. The ICARIS-2 
surveys may also serve as the only readily available source of data to 
measure several of the Healthy People 2010 injury prevention 
objectives. In order to more fully monitor injury risk factors and 
selected year Healthy People 2010 injury objectives, as well as 
evaluate the effectiveness of injury prevention programs, the second 
phase (ICARIS-2 Phase-2) of the current national telephone survey on 
injury risk is being implemented. The only cost to the respondents is 
the time involved to complete the survey.

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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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Adult male and female (age +18 years)...........           3,000               1           17/60             850
        Total...................................           3,000               1           17/60             850
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    Dated: January 2, 2003.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-326 Filed 1-7-03; 8:45 am]
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