[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 25, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8545-8546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4000]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-09-09AW]


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 email 
to [email protected].
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper 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. Written comments should be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Measuring Preferences for Quality of Life for Child Maltreatment--
New--National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), 
Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The CDC requests approval of a study and subsequent survey fielding 
to measure the quality-of-life (QoL) impacts resulting from child 
maltreatment (CM) using a quantitative, preference-based approach. The 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, among many others, has 
identified child maltreatment as a serious U.S. public health problem 
with substantial long-term physical and psychological consequences. 
Despite considerable research on the consequences of CM in adult 
survivors, few studies have utilized standard QoL techniques and none 
have quantified childhood QoL impacts. This gap in the literature means 
the full QoL burden of CM has not been measured inhibiting the 
evaluation and comparison of CM intervention programs. This study will 
improve public health knowledge and economic evaluation of the QoL 
impacts of physical and sexual CM, including effects specific to 
juvenile and adolescent survivors, through the development and fielding 
of a preference-based survey instrument.
    CDC has contracted with RTI International to develop and field a 
survey instrument to measure the QoL impacts of child maltreatment. RTI 
will develop the instrument based on standardized QoL methods, existing 
instruments, a literature review of CM outcomes, and qualitative 
research techniques. The final instrument will be fielded to a national 
sample and data analyzed to measure the impacts of CM. Survey 
development will include interviews with both clinician proxies for 
adolescent survivors and CM survivors, as well as focus groups with 
same-sex adult CM survivors.
    The instrument will be pretested to an online national sample of 
all U.S. adults. After pretesting, the final survey will be fielded to 
a nationally-representative sample of 2000 U.S. adults. The survey will 
focus on QoL measures of preferences and contain limited questions on 
past CM exposure to identify possible CM survivors. The national sample 
will be representative of the U.S. population and include a significant 
number of CM survivors so that preferences can be estimated separately 
based on past CM exposure.
    Final results will provide an estimate of the quality-of-life 
burden of child maltreatment in the United States. Analysis and results 
of the survey data will be used to inform the public health community 
of the impact of CM, and to evaluate and compare CM intervention 
programs.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                              No. of      Average
                                                                 No. of     responses    burden per     Total
         Type of respondent                    Form           respondents      per        response   burden  (in
                                                                            respondent   (in hours)     hours)
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Same-sex adult CM survivors.........  Focus groups..........           50            1          1.5           75
U.S. Adults.........................  Pretest interviews....           15            1          1.5           23
                                      Pilot Instrument......          100            1        20/60           34
                                      National Sample.......         2000            1        20/60          667
Clinicians..........................  In-depth interviews...           15            1            1           15
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    Total...........................  ......................  ...........  ...........  ...........          814
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    Dated: February 13, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
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