[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 191 (Tuesday, October 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60127-60128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24249]


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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

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 
periodically 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, email [email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance 
Office at (301) 443-1984.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: Healthy Weight Collaborative Evaluation (OMB No. 
0915-xxxx)--[NEW]

    Background: Supported by the Prevention and Public Health Fund 
created by Section 4002 of the Affordable Care Act, HRSA awarded $5 
million to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality 
(NICHQ) to create the Collaborative for Healthy Weight, a national 
initiative to bring together primary care providers, public health 
professionals, and leaders of community-based organizations to use 
quality improvement methods to address the obesity epidemic in 
communities across the country. A key part of that initiative was 
creation of the Healthy Weight Collaborative (HWC), a quality 
improvement project working with 50 community teams to identify, test, 
and evaluate a national ``change package'' of evidence-based program 
and policy interventions to address childhood obesity. The HWC is being 
implemented in two consecutive phases, each with a series of learning 
sessions and action periods. The first phase (July 2011 to July 2012) 
includes 10 community teams; the second phase (March 2012 to March 
2013) includes 40 additional teams.
    Purpose: The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the quality 
and effectiveness of the HWC. This one-year information collection will 
supplement the analysis of existing quantitative HWC administrative and 
team data by collecting primary data using individual and group 
interviews with two groups of stakeholders: (a) NICHQ project 
leadership, staff, and faculty; and (b) community team members at 11 
selected sites (four Phase 1 teams and seven Phase 2 teams). Data from 
these interviews will be used to evaluate the quality and effectiveness 
of the HWC. NICHQ leadership, staff, and faculty interview topics 
include: the design and implementation of the HWC project; the content 
and quality of the HWC learning sessions, coaching assistance, and 
other action period activities; the community teams' experiences 
implementing the

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HWC change package and quality improvement indicators; and 
stakeholders' perceptions of the quality and effectiveness of the HWC 
in accelerating community efforts to address childhood obesity. 
Community team interviews will be conducted with the team coordinator, 
the quality improvement data manager, and other team members, including 
primary care providers, public health officials, school administrators, 
and other community volunteers. Separate interview protocols will be 
developed for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 community teams. Phase 1 
protocols will examine community team strategies, activities, and 
approaches that have been sustained and spread after the end of Phase 
1. Phase 2 protocols will examine: (1) Team goals, objectives, and 
program elements; (2) team implementation of the HWC change package; 
(3) team engagement in HWC activities; and (4) team linkages and 
organizational and policy changes resulting from the team's 
participation in the HWC.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
           Instrument               respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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NICHQ Leaders Interview.........               4               1               4             1.0             4.0
NICHQ Staff Interview...........               5               1               5             1.0             5.0
NICHQ Faculty Group Interview...             * 6               1               6             1.0             6.0
Phase 1 Team Group Interview....           ** 24               1              24             1.5            36.0
Phase 1 Team Coordinator                       4               1               4             1.5             6.0
 Interview......................
Phase 1 Team Data Manager                      4               1               4              .5             2.0
 Interview......................
Phase 2 Team Group Interview....          *** 42               1              42             1.5            63.0
Phase 2 Team Coordinator                       7               1               7             1.5            10.5
 Interview......................
Phase 2 Team Data Manager                      7               1               7              .5             3.5
 Interview......................
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    Total.......................             103  ..............             103  ..............           136.0
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* One group interview: 6 people per group.
** Four group interviews: 6 people per group.
*** Seven group interviews: 6 people per group.

    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 email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: September 26, 2012.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-24249 Filed 10-1-12; 8:45 am]
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