[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 132 (Thursday, July 10, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41137-41138]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17435]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-50-03]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    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) 498-1210. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax 
to (202) 395-6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days 
of this notice.

Proposed Project

    A Community-based Intervention Model to Promote Neighborhood 
Participation in the Reduction of Aedes aegypti 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

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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.
    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 three 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. The total burden hours are 759.

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                                                                                                             Total
                                                              Number of       Number of    Average burden/  Burden
                   Form                      Respondents     respondents     responses/     response  (in     (in
                                                                             respondent         hrs.)        hrs.)
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Intervened Community.....................             400               2           45/60            600
Informal Interview.......................               3               1           30/60              1.5
In-Depth Interview.......................              15               1           30/60              7.5
Focus Groups.............................              10               2           90/60             30
Larval Survey (sub-sample)...............              80               3           30/60            120
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    Dated: July 3, 2003.
Thomas A. Bartenfeld,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-17435 Filed 7-9-03; 8:45 am]
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