[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 169 (Friday, August 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50376-50377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-4270]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Data Collection; Comment Request; National Physician 
Survey of Practices on Diet, Physical Activity, and Weight Control

SUMMARY: Under the provision of section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 
National Cancer Institute (NCI), has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the 
information collection listed below. This proposed information 
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on June 28, 
2007, page 43609 and allowed 60-days for public comment. One public 
comment was received asking about the possibility of doing studies of 
autism rather than the proposed survey. The comment was out of the 
scope of this current project. The purpose of this notice is to allow 
an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of 
Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required 
to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, 
revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

Proposed Collection

    Title: Physician Survey of Practices on Diet, Physical Activity, 
and Weight Control.
    Type of Information Collection Request: NEW.
    Need and Use of Information Collection: This study will obtain 
current, national data on primary care physicians' knowledge, 
attitudes, and practices related to diet, physical activity, and weight 
control. Obesity, poor diet, and lack of physical activity are becoming 
recognized as major public health problems in the United States, and 
have been linked to increased risk, adverse prognosis, and poor quality 
of life for cancer and many other chronic diseases. The data collected 
in this study will support and further NCI work in monitoring and 
evaluating providers' cancer prevention knowledge, attitudes, and 
practices and their impact on pupulation health, as well as enable 
monitoring of progress toward major cancer control goals. Data from the 
survey will be used to profile existing physician practice, understand 
barriers to counseling and referral, and to inform methods for 
improving the utilization of these services for adults and children. 
Two questionnaires, one sent to physicians and one sent to their 
practice administrators, will be administered by mail or telephone to a 
randomly-selected national sample of 2,000 physicians belonging to 
primary care specialties. Study participants will be 2,000 practicing 
physicians who are family practitioners, general internists, 
pediatricians, and obstetrician/gynecologists and 2,000 practice 
administrators.
    The annual reporting burden is as follows: Estimated Number of 
Respondents: 4,000; Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1; 
Average Burden Hours Per Response: .333; and Estimated Total Annual 
Burden Hours, Requested: 1,332. The annualized cost to respondents is 
estimated at: $65,048. There are no Capital Costs to report. There are 
no Operating or Maintenance Costs to report.

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                                                                     Estimated
                                                     Estimated        number          Average        Estimated
               Type of respondent                     number       responses per   burden hours    total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response    burden hours
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Physician.......................................           2,000               1           0.333             666
Medical Practice Administrator..................           2,000               1           0.333             666
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    Total.......................................           4,000               1  ..............          1,332
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* Hourly earnings data are taken from the National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States,
  June 2005, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Send comments to Ashley Wilder Smith, 
Ph.D., M.P.H., Health Sciences Specialist, National Cancer Institute, 
6130 Executive Blvd., MSC 7344, Executive Plaza North, Room 4090, 
Bethesda, MD 20892-7344. Telephone: 301-451-1843; E-mail: 
[email protected].
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days 
of the date of

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this publication should be received by September 26, 2007.

    Dated: August 21, 2007.
Ashley Wilder Smith,
National Cancer Institute Task Order Monitor, National Institutes of 
Health.
[FR Doc. 07-4270 Filed 8-30-07; 8:45 am]
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