[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 207 (Monday, October 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61219-61220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-26986]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-73-03]


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: 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 or 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. The estimated annualized 
burden is 1521.

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                                                                                                  Average burden
                    Form/Respondent category                         Number of     Frequency of    per Response
                                                                    respondents      response       (in hours)
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Screening:
    Ineligible Households plus Nonhouseholds....................            2800               1            1/60
    Unable to reach respondent, 8 attempts......................            1000               4            6/60
    Refusals--Screener..........................................            3150               1           .5/60
CATI Survey Instrument:
    Refusals--CATI..............................................             900               1          1.5/60
    Partial Interview...........................................             150               1           10/60
    Completed Interviews........................................            4000               1           15/60
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    Dated: October 17, 2003.
Gaylon D. Morris,
Acting Director, Executive Secretariat, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-26986 Filed 10-24-03; 8:45 am]
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