[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43985-43986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18274]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30-Day-0920-09AU]


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

Proposed Project

    Preventing HIV Risk Behaviors among Hispanic Adolescents--New--
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention 
(NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    This project involves the development and evaluation of a 
streamlined version of Familias Unidas, a family-based intervention 
designed to prevent drug use and unsafe sex among Hispanic adolescents. 
Compared to non-Hispanic whites, Hispanic adolescents are highly 
vulnerable to acquiring HIV. Hispanic adolescents between the ages of 
13 and 19 are five times more likely to be infected with HIV than are 
same-aged non-Hispanic whites (CDC-P, 2006). Hispanic adolescents 
report higher rates of unprotected sex at last intercourse than both 
non-Hispanic whites and African Americans. Compared to non-Hispanic 
whites and to African Americans, Hispanic 8th and 10th graders report 
the highest lifetime, annual, and 30-day prevalence rates of alcohol, 
cigarette, and licit or illicit drug use. Drug use and unsafe sexual 
behavior are risks for acquiring HIV.
    Despite the urgent public health need to stop the progress of the 
HIV epidemic and to reduce health disparities in HIV infection, 
especially with regard to Hispanics, the largest and fastest growing 
minority group in the nation, Familias Unidas is the only published 
intervention found to be efficacious in preventing both drug use and 
unsafe sexual behavior. Familias Unidas has demonstrated efficacy in an 
intensive, 9 to 12 month version in two previous studies in preventing 
drug use and unsafe sexual behavior relative to two attention control 
conditions. Labor-intensive interventions are difficult to disseminate 
to the larger community. Consequently, there is an urgent need to 
develop and test a streamlined version that can be more easily 
disseminated to the population. Therefore, the specific aim of the 
proposed study is to evaluate a streamlined version of Familias Unidas. 
Findings from this study will strengthen CDC's HIV/AIDS behavioral 
intervention portfolio by creation of an effective behavioral 
intervention designed specifically for Hispanic adolescents which it 
currently lacks.
    Approximately 400 dyads of Hispanic adolescents and their primary 
caregivers (a total of 800 people), recruited through two high schools 
in Miami-Dade County, will be screened for study eligibility in a short 
interview lasting approximately three minutes. Based on the 
investigators' prior research, approximately 240 dyads of Hispanic 
adolescents and their primary caregivers (a total of 480 people) will 
be deemed eligible for the study. Each of the eligible dyads will be 
placed into one of two groups: (1) The streamlined 5-session 
intervention and (2) a control group which receives standard HIV/AIDS 
prevention information from the high schools. Adolescents and 
caregivers from both groups will respond to computerized questionnaires 
(ACASI) containing questions about family functioning, HIV/AIDS risk 
behaviors and substance abuse, etc. Adolescents will spend 
approximately 60 minutes completing the questionnaires, while their 
primary caregivers will complete the questionnaires in approximately 45 
minutes. They will complete these questionnaires twice annually during 
the two-year period. There is no cost to the respondents other than 
their time. The average annual burden is estimated to be 940 hours.

Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours

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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
            Respondents                       Form name             respondents    responses per    respondent
                                                                                    respondent      (in hours)
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Hispanic Adolescents Primary         Recruitment Phone Script...             400               1            9/60
 Caregivers.
Hispanic Adolescents and Primary     Caregiver and Adolescent                800               1            3/60
 Caregivers.                          Screening Form.
Primary Caregivers of Hispanic       Parent Assessment Battery..             240               2           45/60
 Adolescents.
Hispanic Adolescents...............  Adolescent Assessment                   240               2               1
                                      Battery.
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    Dated: July 20, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-18274 Filed 7-26-10; 8:45 am]
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