[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 204 (Friday, October 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65512-65514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-27245]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-12-11JD]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-5960 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-
5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

Proposed Project

    Evaluation of Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen 
RelationshipsTM--New--National Center for Injury Prevention 
and Control--Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Background and Brief Description

    Evaluation of Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen 
RelationshipsTM is the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention's new teen dating violence prevention initiative.
    Recently, efforts to prevent teen dating violence (TDV) have grown, 
particularly in schools, among policymakers, and among sexual violence 
and domestic violence coalitions. Now many states and communities also 
are working to stop teen dating violence. However, these activities 
vary greatly in quality and effectiveness. To address the gaps, CDC has 
developed Dating Matters, a teen

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dating violence prevention program that includes programming for 
students, parents, educators, as well as policy development. Dating 
Matters is based on the current evidence about what works in prevention 
and focuses on high-risk, urban communities where participants include: 
Middle school students age 11 to 14 years; middle school parents; brand 
ambassadors; educators; school leadership; program implementers; 
community representatives; and local health department representatives 
in the following four communities: Alameda County, California; 
Baltimore, Maryland; Broward County, Florida; and Chicago, Illinois.
    The primary goal of the current proposal is to conduct an outcome 
and implementation evaluation of Dating Matters in the four 
metropolitan cities to determine its feasibility, cost, and 
effectiveness. In the evaluation a standard model of TDV prevention 
(Safe Dates which is administered in the 8th grade) will be compared to 
a comprehensive model (this model will be administered to students in 
the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades). The comprehensive model also includes 
communications strategies, policy development, and programs involving 
parents of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders and their educators.
    Burden estimates are based on the following information:
     Number of communities/sites: 4.
     Number of schools across 4 communities/sites: 48 (12 
schools per community).
     Number of students in each middle school: 600 students--
6th, 7th, 8th grade (200 students per grade).
     Number of educators/school staff (e.g., teachers, 
principals, support staff) in each school: 40.
     Number of schools implementing the standard model of TDV 
prevention: 24 (6 schools per community).
     Number of schools implementing the comprehensive model of 
TDV prevention: 24 (6 schools per community).
    Across 4 communities/sites, 48 schools will implement the two 
models of teen dating violence prevention. Based on an anticipated 
school size of 600 the sampling frame for this data collection is 
28,800 each year. The sampling frame for parents, given that we would 
only include one parent per student, is also 28,800. Based on our 
research and consultation with middle schools, most schools with 
approximately 600 students have approximately 40 staff. If we assume 40 
educators per school, the sampling frame for the educator sample is 
1,920.
    The following are explanations of estimated burden by respondent:
    Students: We will use random selection to identify one-third of the 
total participants, which is 9,600 student participants per year.
    Parents: We will attempt to recruit all parents participating in 
the parent curricula and select an equal number of parents from the 
standard of care schools to serve as a matched comparison group. We 
anticipate our final sample will include 40 parents per grade per 
school, with a total of (40 parents x 48 schools x 3 grades) 5,760 
parents per year. This sample of parents will respond to surveys twice 
per year.
    Educators: Although we will attempt to recruit all educators in 
each school (1,920) each year, we expect that 85 percent will 
participate, with the total number of 1,632 educator respondents per 
year.
    School data extractors: We will attempt to recruit one data 
extractor per 48 schools to extract school data to be used in 
conjunction with the outcome data for the students. Individual level 
school data will only be collected for students participating in the 
evaluation (one-third of all students in each school or 200 students), 
so the number of respondents/extractors will be 48 and the number of 
responses per data extractor is 200.
    School leadership: Based on the predicted number of one school 
leadership (e.g., principal, vice principal) per 48 schools, the number 
of respondents will be 48.
    Local Health Department representative: Based on the predicted 
number of four communities/sites and four local health department 
representatives working on Dating Matters per community, the number of 
respondents will be 16.
    Parent Program Manager: With a maximum of one parent program 
manager per community/site, the number of program manager respondents 
will be 4.
    Community Representative: Based on the predicted number of 10 
community representatives per 4 communities/sites, the number of 
respondents will be 40.
    Parent Curricula Implementers: 6 schools from each community will 
implement the comprehensive approach. Parent groups in the 
comprehensive approach are led by one male and one female parent. We 
have estimated 7 parent pairs per community with 56 total parent 
implementers (2 parents x 7 parent pairs x 4 communities = 56 
implementers). These 56 implementers will host 5 sessions to 6th 
graders (280 respondents) and 3 sessions to 7th graders (168 
respondents). It is anticipated that the parent curricula implementers 
will conduct three rounds of each curricula per year, with three 
responses per session log per year.
    Student Curricula Implementers: There are six student curricula 
implementers per school that will be completing fidelity instruments 
(48 schools x 6 implementers = 288 respondents). The 6th and 7th grade 
implementers will complete 6 program sessions each (288 x 6 = 1,728 
respondents) and the 8th grade implementers will complete 10 program 
sessions (288 x 10 = 2,880 respondents). It is anticipated that the 
student curricula implementers will conduct one round of each curricula 
per year, with one response per session log per year.
    Safe Dates Implementers: Based on the predicted number of 3 
implementers in each of 48 schools, who will implement the 8th grade 
SafeDates program, the number of respondents for the Safe Dates 
implementer survey will be 144.
    Brand Ambassadors: The Brand Ambassador Implementation Survey will 
be provided to each brand ambassador in each community. With a maximum 
of 20 brand ambassadors per community, the feedback form will be 
collected from a total of 80 brand ambassadors. Brand Ambassadors will 
respond to the survey twice per year.
    Communications Implementers (``Brand Ambassador Coordinators''): 
The Communications Campaign Tracking form will be provided to each 
brand ambassador coordinator in each community. With a maximum of one 
brand ambassador coordinator per community (n = 4), the feedback form 
will be collected from a total of 4 brand ambassador coordinators.
    There are no costs to the respondents other than their time. The 
total estimated annual burden hours are 60,182.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
         Type of respondent                   Form name              Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)
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Student Program Participant........  Student Outcome Survey                 9600               1             1.5
                                      Baseline--Appendix D.
Student Program Participant........  Student Outcome Survey                 9600               2             1.5
                                      Follow-up--Appendix E.
School data extractor..............  School Indicators--Appendix              48             200           15/60
                                      F.
Parent Program Participant.........  Parent Outcome Survey--                5760               2               1
                                      Appendix G.
Educator...........................  Educator Outcome Survey--              1632               1           30/60
                                      Appendix H.
Student Brand ambassador...........  Brand Ambassador                         80               2           20/60
                                      Implementation Survey--
                                      Appendix I.
School leadership..................  School Leadership Capacity               48               1               1
                                      and Readiness Survey--
                                      Appendix J.
Parent Curricula Implementer (6th    Parent Program Fidelity 6th             280               3           15/60
 grade).                              Grade Sessions 1-5--
                                      Appendices K, L, M, N, O.
Parent Curricula Implementer (7th    Parent Program Fidelity 7th             168               3           15/60
 grade).                              Grade Sessions 1, 3-5--
                                      Appendices P, Q, R.
Safe Dates Implementer               Safe Dates Implementation               144               1               1
 (implementation).                    Survey--Appendix S.
Student Curricula Implementer (6th   Student Program Fidelity               1728               1           15/60
 grade).                              6th Grade Session 1-6--
                                      Appendices T, U, V, W, X,
                                      Y.
Student Curricula Implementer (7th   Student Program Fidelity               1728               1           15/60
 grade).                              7th Grade Sessions 1-6--
                                      Appendices Z-EE.
Student Curricula Implementer (8th   Student Program Fidelity               2880               1           15/60
 grade).                              8th Grade Sessions 1-10--
                                      Appendices FF-OO.
Communications Implementer.........  Communications Campaign                   4               4           20/60
                                      Tracking--Appendix PP.
Local health department              Local Health Department                  16               1               2
 representative.                      Capacity and Readiness--
                                      Appendix QQ.
Parent Program Manager.............  Parent Program Capacity and               4               1               1
                                      Readiness--Appendix RR.
Community Representative...........  Community Capacity and                   40               1               1
                                      Readiness--Appendix SS.
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Catina Conner,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-27245 Filed 10-20-11; 8:45 am]
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