[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73333-73334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-28553]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-09-08AO]


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 404-639-5960 
and send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, CDC Acting Reports Clearance 
Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected].

Proposed Project

    Children's Peer Relations and the Risk for Injury at School--New--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Coordinating 
Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention (CCEHIP), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Injuries are responsible for more deaths than all other causes 
combined for people under 19. In 2003, the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC) estimated that, annually, one in four children 
sustained an injury severe enough to warrant medical care, school 
absence, or bed rest. It was determined that an investigation of 
modifiable risk factors for childhood injuries is necessary to improve 
the health of children.
    The Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention at the CDC will 
investigate the relationship between a child's social behaviors and 
experiences at school and their school injuries. Peer nominated and 
teacher rated social behaviors will

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be collected and compared to injury rates measured in the school health 
room of 3rd-5th graders at one public elementary school with an 
ethnically diverse and lower socioeconomic status student body. From 
this data, a behavioral risk profile for injury will be derived. By 
learning which children are at risk based on various behavioral 
characteristics, successful secondary injury prevention strategies may 
be targeted when resources do not allow universal prevention. The main 
hypothesis of the study is that children with maladaptive behaviors and 
social experiences (e.g., aggression, bullying, social withdrawal, peer 
rejection) will be more at risk for injury than their well-adapted 
peers. An estimated 183 children and 14 teachers will be surveyed.
    Information collected will include three data sources: (1) A one-
time peer nomination of social behaviors and peer relationships; (2) a 
one-time teacher's report of data of the child's behavior that will 
reflect the child's behavior across a school year; and (3) a report of 
events from the school year as determined by school health room visits 
for injury. Injury event reports will be compiled by the school health 
room aide. By learning about risk factors for injuries at school, 
interventions may be created which can reduce the burden of injuries to 
children and the disruption to the child's classroom time. This effort 
may even impact the amount of time parents must take off from work to 
pick up their children.
    There is no cost to respondents except for their time. The total 
estimated annualized burden hours are 211.

Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondent                 Instrument name         Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Students..............................  Demographic Checklist                183               1            5/60
                                         (``All About You'').
                                        Peer Nomination                      183               1           40/60
                                         Inventory (``Others At
                                         School'').
Teachers..............................  Social Behavior Rating                14               1               3
                                         Scale.
School Health Room Aide...............  Injury Abstraction Form.               1               1              32
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    Dated: November 21, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8-28553 Filed 12-1-08; 8:45 am]
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