[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 1, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30920-30921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-12235]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-04-55]


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 Dale Verell, CDC 
Assistant OMB Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-E11, Atlanta, GA 
30333, or through the Internet at [email protected]. Written comments should 
be received within 60 days of this notice.
    Proposed Project: Evaluation of the First Round of Community-Based 
and Participatory Research Funding Offered through CDC's Extramural 
Prevention Research Program (formerly known as the Prevention Research 
Initiative)--New--Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    Two of the current priorities of CDC are to (1) substantially 
increase CDC's extramural public health research portfolio and budget 
and (2) develop a more client-oriented or customer-focused approach in 
all of CDC's activities. As part of its strategy to strengthen and 
expand extramural public health research, CDC received new money from 
Congress in 1999 to establish an extramural prevention research 
program. This program would focus on linking the talents and skills of 
university-based scientists with the resources of health departments, 
community-based programs, and

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national organizations in order to try to better respond to the health 
needs of individual communities.
    Through its first round, the Extramural Prevention Research Program 
(EPRP), then known as the Prevention Research Initiative, provided 
$12.5 million in funding annually to support 56 three-year research 
projects based in states and localities throughout the country. The 
topics of these research projects were as diverse as asthma, traumatic 
brain injuries, tobacco control, workplace safety, and health 
disparities. All of the projects were community-based, and 
approximately one-third used a participatory approach in which, rather 
than just having community members be subjects of the research as is 
the usual case, researchers were to engage members of the community 
being studied (i.e., those who were expected to be the users of the 
research findings) in the research process itself. It is believed that 
engaging the users in the research will make it more likely that the 
research undertaken will address their actual needs and that they will 
be more likely to apply the research findings.
    Because of this commitment, CDC and many other federal and non-
federal funding agencies are very interested in funding participatory 
research. Yet, anecdotal information and findings from an evaluation 
project conducted elsewhere at CDC by one EPRP staff member have 
suggested that funding programs may need to adjust their expectations, 
requirements, and communication strategies if they want to attract and 
adequately support the conduct of participatory research projects, and 
if they want to best support the dissemination and translation into 
practice of research findings. Therefore, this project will involve 
conducting one-on-one, semi-structured, open-ended qualitative 
interviews with the principal investigators of the grants funded in the 
first round of the EPRP in order to learn how CDC can best support 
community-based and participatory research, and how it can best 
participate in the dissemination and translation of the studies' 
findings into practice. There is no cost to respondents.

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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of        burden/      Total burden
                   Respondents                      respondents     responses/     response  (in     (in hrs.)
                                                                    respondent         hrs.)
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Principal Investigators funded through the first              30               1           45/60              23
 round of the EPRP who self-report that they
 used a participatory research approach.........
Principal Investigators funded through the first              26               1           30/60              13
 round of the EPRP who self-report that they did
 not use a participatory research approach......
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    Total.......................................              56  ..............  ..............              36
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    Dated: May 24, 2004.
Joseph E. Salter,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-12235 Filed 5-28-04; 8:45 am]
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