[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 204 (Monday, October 24, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61457-61458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-21116]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Injuries Among Youth With 
Developmental Disabilities

SUMMARY: 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 National Institute of Child 
Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institutes of Health 
(NIH) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects to be 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval.

Proposed Collection

    Title: Injuries Among Youth with Developmental Disabilities. Type 
of Information Collection Request: New. Use of Information: The 
proposed study seeks (1) to determine if children with disabilities are 
at increased risk of injury compared to typically developing children, 
and (2) to identify which injuries children with developmental 
disabilities are at particular risk of sustaining. Existing data on 
this topic are scarce and equivocal. Results will help inform 
prevention efforts. NICHD proposes to collect information about 
disabilities among children with injuries through phone interviews with

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parents/guardians of children who were seen in an emergency department 
for an injury. This information will be collected in conjunction with 
the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC's) National Electronic 
Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). The NEISS is part of CPSC's routine 
data collection. Through this system, trained abstractors code 
information from all injury-related emergency department visits in the 
participating hospital. Additional information will be collected 
through ``follow-back'' phone interviews with parents/guardians of 
injured children seen in participating hospitals. NICHD will collect 
information on developmental disabilities among injured children e.g., 
cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness or trouble hearing, autism, and 
mental retardation), medical/psychological conditions e.g. epilepsy/
seizures, ADHD), medication use, and other potential risk factors for 
injury including family structure, sibling characteristics, and 
caregiver supervision practices. Finally, NICHD would like to determine 
if typically developing children who have a sibling with a 
developmental disability, who may compete for supervisory time, are at 
a greater risk of injury than other children. This Interagency 
Agreement provides funds from NICHD to CPSC to complete 8000 telephone 
interviews with parents/guardians of injured children. The sample of 
interviewees will be derived from a larger sample of children who will 
be systematically selected from the NEISS system. Sampling will cover 
an entire year to account for seasonal variations in injury rates. Two 
thousand interviews will be conducted in 4 different age groups: 0-4 
years, 5-9 years, 10-14 years, and 15-19 years. Intentional injuries 
will not be included in the sampling pool. Further, deaths and 
hospitalizations will be excluded. Interviews will be limited to those 
who can complete an interview in English or Spanish. Frequency of 
Response: One interview; Affected Public: Individuals or households; 
Type of Respondents: Parents or Guardians; The annual reporting burden 
is as follows: Estimated Number of Respondents: 8000. Estimated Number 
of Responses per Respondent: 1; Average Burden Hours Per Response 0.33; 
and Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 2640. There are no 
Capital Costs, Operating Costs and/or Maintenance Costs to report.

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                                                                     Estimated                       Estimated
                                                     Estimated       number of        Average      total annual
               Type of respondents                  numbers of     responses per   burden hours    burden hours
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response      requested
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Parents/guardians...............................            8000               1             .33            2640
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Request for Comments

    Written comments and/or suggestions from the public and affected 
agencies should address one or more of the following points: (1) 
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of the function of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility; (2) Evaluate the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (4) Minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including the 
use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instruments, contact: Gitanjali Saluja, Ph.D., 6100 Executive Blvd. 
Suite 7B03, Rockville, MD 20852. Phone: 301-435-6917. E-mail: 
[email protected]

Comments Due Date

    Comments regarding this information collection are best assured of 
having their full effect if received within 60-days of the date of this 
publication.

    Dated: October 13, 2005.
Paul L. Johnson,
Project Clearance Liaison, NICHD, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 05-21116 Filed 10-21-05; 8:45 am]
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