[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60629-60630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22819]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-04-0455X]


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 or send an email to 
[email protected]. 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

    Learning from Principal Investigators of Research Projects Funded 
through the Extramural Prevention Research Program: How Can CDC Best 
Support Participatory Research and the Dissemination and Translation of 
Research Findings? -- 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 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 by CDC 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. 
The approximate annualized burden is 36 hours.

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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden/
                           Respondents                               Number of      responses/     response  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)
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Principal Investigators funded through the first round of the                 30               1           45/60
 EPRP who self-report that they used a participatory research
 approach.......................................................

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Principal Investigators funded through the first round of the                 26               1           30/60
 EPRP who self-report that they did not use a participatory
 research approach..............................................
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    Dated: October 4, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-22819 Filed 10-8-04; 8:45 am]
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