[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 37 (Thursday, February 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8724-8725]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-3825]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-10-09CH]


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Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    A Controlled Evaluation of Expect Respect Support Groups (ERSG): 
Preventing and Interrupting Teen Dating Violence among At-Risk Middle 
and High School Students--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 prevalence and consequences of teen dating violence make it a 
public health concern that requires early and effective prevention. To 
date, only three prevention strategies--Safe Dates, the Youth 
Relationships Project, and 4th R--have demonstrated reductions in 
dating violence behaviors in rigorous, controlled evaluations, and only 
one of these (Safe Dates) has effectively prevented sexual violence. In 
order to protect young people and build the evidence for effective 
prevention strategies, evaluations of additional programs are needed, 
including those programs currently in the field. Expect Respect Support 
Groups (provided by Safe Place) are currently in use in the Austin 
Independent School District and demonstrates promising results in an 
uncontrolled program evaluation, which strongly suggests a controlled 
evaluation is warranted to more rigorously examine program effects.
    The proposed study has two primary goals and two exploratory aims. 
The primary goals are: (1) To evaluate the effectiveness of Expect 
Respect Support Groups (ERSG) in preventing and reducing teen dating 
violence and (2) Comparing whether there is increased healthy conflict 
resolution skills reported by at-risk male and female middle and high 
school students supported by ERSG, compared to at-risk students in 
control schools who do not receive ERSG.
    The exploratory aims are: (1) To evaluate whether or not the 
effectiveness of ERSG is enhanced by the presence of universal, school-
wide prevention programs, and (2) To examine whether participants with 
different characteristics respond differently to the intervention. For 
example, we will determine whether outcome for boys or girls are the 
same.
    The proposed evaluation will use a quasi-experimental/non-
randomized design in which a convenience sample of participants in 
schools receiving universal and/or targeted prevention services are 
compared to students in control schools in which no dating violence 
prevention services are available. Based on past experience with an 
uncontrolled program evaluation of Expect Respect Support groups, we 
anticipate that in the Austin Independent School District, 800 students 
will undergo an Intake Assessment. From that number, 600 respondents 
from the intervention and control groups will be eligible for the 
Baseline Survey, and from that number, 400 will complete the Completion 
Survey.
    Therefore, over three years we will recruit 1800 students (300 per 
year from intervention schools and 300 per year from control schools), 
of whom we anticipate 1200 will have complete data.
    Control schools will be selected that have characteristics (e.g., 
risk status, socio-economic status) similar to the Austin Independent 
School District intervention schools.
    There is no cost to respondents. The total estimated annual burden 
hours are 2000.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                         Number of     Average
                                                                            Number of    responses    burden per
            Type of respondent                        Form name            respondents      per        response
                                                                                         respondent   (in hours)
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Control Schools (School districts           Intake assessment............          400            1        15/60
 surrounding Austin Independent School
 District).
                                            Baseline Survey..............          300            1            1
                                            Completion Survey............          200            1            1
                                            Follow-up Survey 1...........          200            1            1
                                            Follow-up Survey 2...........          200            1            1
Intervention Schools (Austin Independent    Intake assessment............          400            1        15/60
 School District).
                                            Baseline Survey..............          300            1            1
                                            Completion Survey............          200            1            1
                                            Follow-up Survey 1...........          200            1            1

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                                            Follow-up Survey 2...........          200            1            1
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    Dated: February 12, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-3825 Filed 2-24-10; 8:45 am]
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