[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 17, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22884-22886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-08911]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-13-13QQ]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic

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summaries of proposed projects. To request more information on the 
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to Ron Otten, 1600 
Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to 
[email protected].
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. Written comments should be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Older Adult Safe Mobility Assessment Tool--NEW--National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    In 2010, there were 40 million adults aged 65 or older in the U.S., 
representing 13% of the U.S. population. By 2030, this segment of the 
population will increase to an estimated 72 million or 20%. People now 
aged 65 are expected to live well into their 80s with the vast majority 
preferring to ``age in place'' (i.e., grow old in their current homes). 
With most adults aging in place, rather than in retirement or nursing 
homes, it is absolutely critical to better prepare communities and 
older Americans for what is on the horizon.
    There is widespread agreement that older adults in the U.S. do not 
adequately plan for their future mobility needs, nor are most aware of 
existing mobility resources in their communities. Thus, when an 
individual's mobility becomes impaired they are ill prepared to adapt 
their lifestyle to their changing needs. A process of mobility 
assessment would begin to address this situation and aid older adults 
in meeting their changing mobility needs.
    At present there are numerous mobility-related assessments actively 
used throughout the U.S. Most are designed to collect information from 
just one particular mobility silo, such as assessments that focus on 
fall prevention. None of these existing tools cut across mobility silos 
while focusing on older adults. None create a national picture of older 
adult safe mobility that captures an individual's physical and 
emotional health, their social network, or the ease of mobility in 
their home, transportation, their neighborhood, their city, and beyond. 
And no existing older adult tools are both mobility holistic and 
empowerment driven self-administered assessments. The data collected in 
this project will allow CDC to develop a tool that can help older 
adults both assess and improve their complete mobility.
    This project involves developing, refining and validating a Safe 
Mobility Assessment Tool that allows older adults to assess their 
current mobility situation, learn about mobility challenges that may 
affect them in the future, and receive actionable feedback on how to 
improve and protect their mobility. The information collected in this 
project will be used to refine and improve the tool, as well as to 
conduct feasibility and audience acceptability analysis of the tool. 
This information will allow CDC to create the most useful Safe Mobility 
Assessment Tool possible for U.S. older adults.
    CDC requests OMB approval to collect both qualitative and 
quantitative data. Qualitative data collection will include key 
informant interviews, focus groups, and intercepts in urban and rural 
communities. In brief, these methods will include key informant 
interviews of community stakeholders (three stakeholder interviews in 
two states for a total of six key informant interviews); older adult 
consumer focus groups (two focus groups in two states with seven people 
each for a total of fourteen participants); and older adult consumer 
intercepts (thirty intercepts in two rural locations and ten intercepts 
in two urban locations for a total of forty intercepts). The 
qualitative data collection will be used to help inform a quantitative 
stage of work to include a national sample of geographically and socio-
demographically diverse older adults (N = 1,000) who will be recruited 
and interviewed by telephone. The key informant interviews, focus 
groups, intercepts and telephone survey data collection will allow us 
to gain information about the feasibility and usefulness of the Older 
Adult Safe Mobility Tool; about what impacts the tool may have on older 
adults (e.g., motivation to change/behavior intent, and changes in 
knowledge, attitudes, and awareness); about which mobility domains are 
most valuable to include in the tool (e.g., which are of greatest 
interest and can be improved by older adults); and about what other 
areas of the tool could be refined and improved. This information will 
allow us to create a final version of the Safe Mobility Assessment Tool 
that can be used by older adults across the U.S. to protect and enhance 
their mobility.
    CDC anticipates that data collection will begin in December 2013 
and that all data collection will be completed by July 2014. CDC 
estimates the following burden for one-time respondents: Key informant 
interviews will take approximately 30 minutes to complete, focus groups 
will each take up to 120 minutes, intercept interviews will take up to 
20 minutes each, and the telephone survey will involve an on-your-own 
review of materials (approximately 15 minutes) and a pre-scheduled 
telephone survey (approximately 12 minutes). CDC plans for 6 
individuals to complete the key informant interviews, 14 older adults 
to participate in the focus groups, and 40 older adults to participate 
in the intercepts. Additionally, CDC plans to collect information from 
1,000 older adults for the telephone survey. Each respondent will only 
provide information once. Key informant interviews and the quantitative 
survey will be conducted by telephone. As telephone survey participants 
are recruited, they may elect to receive stimulus material (i.e., a 
draft version of the Tool) prior to the survey either by mail or 
electronically via email, whichever they prefer. In addition, focus 
group participants may receive communications (confirmation and 
reminder notices) via email or mail. Email communication will be used 
with key informant, focus group and telephone survey respondents, 
however each will be given the option of mail rather than email as 
their preferred communication method. Email will be provided not only 
as a courtesy to respondents, for those respondents that prefer email 
rather than mail, but also, it will allow more open and swift 
communication between the data collectors and study participants. 
Additionally, recruitment/screening for the focus groups and telephone 
surveys, as well as administration of the telephone surveys will use 
Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) systems for data 
collection, which are designed to reduce the burden to respondents.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

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                                        Estimate Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Key informant interview         Interview guide.               6               1           30/60               3
 respondents.
Focus group respondents.......  Moderator guide.              14               1               2              28
Intercept respondents.........  Intercept script              40               1           30/60              20
Telephone survey respondents..  Survey..........           1,000               1           27/60             450
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             501
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Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate 
Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-08911 Filed 4-16-13; 8:45 am]
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