[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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