[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 199 (Friday, October 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63931-63932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-26590]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request 
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, e-mail 
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office at (301) 
443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project Title: Evaluation of the Text4baby Program--(OMB No. 
0915-xxxx)--[NEW]

    Background: Text4baby is a mobile health education program that 
provides free, brief, evidence-based, health messages to women who are 
pregnant or have an infant under one year of age. An educational 
program led by the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies coalition 
(HMHB), Text4baby is intended to help women have safe and healthy 
pregnancies by empowering them with information they need to give their 
babies the best possible start in life. The Text4baby program was 
launched nationally in February 2010. Text4baby is made possible 
through a broad, public-private partnership that includes government 
and Tribal agencies, corporations, academic institutions, professional 
associations, and non-profit organizations.
    The goal of this program evaluation is to examine the 
characteristics of women who utilize the Text4baby mobile phone-based 
program, to assess their experience with the program, and to determine 
whether enrollment in Text4baby is associated with healthy behaviors 
and timely access to health care during pregnancy and an infant's first 
year of life.
    This information will help the Department of Health and Human 
Services understand the usefulness of mobile health technology and the 
potential for expanding and/or adapting mobile phone messaging to 
additional health topics or conditions. The study also may offer 
insight into planning and implementing similar projects.
    Purpose: The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the usefulness 
of the Text4baby program.
    The four data collection components are as follows:
     Safety Consumer Net Survey with subscribers and non-
subscribers to the Text4baby program who receive prenatal care in 
community health centers in four communities. The health centers will 
recruit eligible women, obtain their signed consent to participate in 
the study, and convey their contact information to the data collection 
contractor. Data from the telephone survey will be linked to selected 
data from electronic health records (EHRs) for respondents who consent 
to the release of their EHRs. The survey will be conducted in two 
rounds: Round 1 will include pregnant women and Round 2 will include 
the same women approximately nine months later during the postpartum 
period.
     Focus Groups with current subscribers in four communities 
to obtain more in-depth qualitative data regarding the usefulness of 
the messages and the program.
     Key Informant Interviews of a diverse mix of providers in 
four communities to obtain provider perspectives on the usefulness of 
the Text4baby programs. Providers could include physicians, midwives, 
nurses, case managers, outreach workers, and health educators.
     Stakeholder Interviews with Text4baby partners (public and 
private) to examine the implementation of Text4baby at the national, 
regional, state, or local level, including outreach, enrollment, 
coalition building, sustainability, and replication.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                                                             Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
                Instrument                     Person incurring burden      respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Consent Training and Coordination.........  Health Center Study                        8              12              96            1.00              96
                                             Coordinators.
                                            Health Center Staff.........              32               1              32            1.00              32
Prenatal Patient Consent..................  Health Center Staff.........            1630               1            1630            0.08             130
                                            Prenatal Patient............            1630               1            1630            0.08             130
Parent-of-Minor Consent...................  Health Center Staff.........             195               1             195            0.25              49
                                            Parent of Minor.............             195               1             195            0.08              16
Safety Net Consumer Survey Round 1........  Prenatal Patient............             960               1             960            0.33             317
Safety Net Consumer Survey Round 2........  Postpartum Patient..........             768               1             768            0.33             253
Focus Groups..............................  Prenatal/Postpartum Patient.              80               1              80            1.50             120
Key Informant Interviews..................  Providers...................              40               1              40            0.75              30
Stakeholder Interviews....................  Stakeholders................              30               1              30            0.75              23
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    Total.................................  ............................  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............            1196
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: October 7, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-26590 Filed 10-13-11; 8:45 am]
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