[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2675-2677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00586]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-14-0941]


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 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 LeRoy Richardson, 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

    Evaluation of Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen 
Relationships \TM\ (0920-0941, Expiration 5/31/2016)--Revision--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)--Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships 
\TM\ is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new teen 
dating violence prevention initiative.
    To address the gaps in research and practice, CDC has developed 
Dating Matters, teen 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 communities: Alameda 
County, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Broward County, Florida; and 
Chicago, Illinois. In the evaluation, a standard model of TDV 
prevention (Safe Dates administered in 8th grade) will be compared to a 
comprehensive model (programs administered in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade 
as well as parent, educator, policy, and communications interventions).
    The primary goal of the current proposal is to amend the available 
administration formats for the student follow-up survey for the 
participating youth as they matriculate into high school and to propose 
the use of monetary gifts for the completion of the student follow-up 
survey by high school youth to the approved outcome and implementation 
evaluation of Dating Matters in the four metropolitan cities to 
determine its feasibility, cost, and effectiveness. Following Dating 
Matters program participants into high school may prove challenging and 
without a high response rate, the evaluation design may be compromised. 
To address such concerns, we are requesting to provide a nominal 
monetary gift to participants in an amount up to $25. The use of this 
monetary gift is critical to maintain a high response rate of this 
high-risk and highly mobile sample. Response rates for the follow-up 
survey were anticipated to be 90%, however, in

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the first administration of the survey in 2012/2013, within school year 
(e.g., Fall to Spring) follow-up with the middle school students proved 
challenging due to community characteristics--such as high mobility--
and as a result we achieved an overall response rate of 73%. Among 
outgoing 8th graders who will be the first cohort to be surveyed in 
high school as of Spring 2014, the 2013 follow-up response rate was 
56.3%. Efforts to improve response rates for middle school youth are 
underway, however, we have particular concerns for youth who 
matriculate from middle school to high school, as they will be in 
different school buildings and their schools will no longer be 
participating in the programmatic components of the initiative. 
Therefore, for these high school youth, additional measures, including 
monetary gifts and multiple administration formats, will be necessary 
to engage them in the survey to achieve our target response rate.
    Population. The study population includes students in 6th through 
12th grades at 44 schools in the four participating sites. At most, 
schools are expected to have 6 classrooms per grade, with an average of 
30 students per classroom yielding a population of 23,760 students (44 
schools x 3 grades x 6 classrooms per grade x 30 students per 
classroom). All student evaluation activities will take place during 
the school year. The sampling frame for parents, given that we would 
only include one parent per student, is also 23,760 for the three years 
of data collection covered by this package. If we assume 40 educators 
per school, the sampling frame for the educator sample is 1,760.
    Students: In each year of data collection, we will recruit 11,880 
students (30 students per classroom x 3 classrooms per grade x 3 grades 
x 44 schools). We assume a 95% participation rate (n = 11,286) for the 
baseline student survey and 90% participation rate (n = 10,692) at 
follow-up survey.
    Parents: We will recruit a sample of 2,020 parents. We expect that 
95% of the 2,020 parents will agree to participate at baseline (n = 
1,919) and 90% will participate in the follow-up survey (n = 1,818) 
parents.
    Educators: We will attempt to recruit all educators in each school 
(44 schools x 40 educators per school = 1,760). We expect a 95% 
participation rate for an estimated sample of 1,672 educators at 
baseline and 90% participation rate at follow-up for an estimated 
sample of 1,584.
    School data extractors: We will attempt to recruit one data 
extractor per 44 schools to extract school data to be used in 
conjunction with the outcome data for the students. Data extractors in 
each school will access individual school-level data for those students 
in their school who consented and participated in the baseline student 
survey (3 x 4 x 30 x 95% = 342).
Implementation Evaluation
    For the student focus groups, we will recruit groups of 10 students 
per group. Two groups will be held per each of the 4 sites (10 x 2 x 4 
= 80 total student participants).
    Student implementer focus groups will be organized by site, with 
two annual focus groups per site with 10 implementers in each group (10 
x 2 x 4 = 80 total student program implementer participants).
    Communications focus groups will be organized by site with up to 
four groups per site (4 x 4 x 6 = 96 total student participants).
    Parent program implementer focus groups will be organized by site, 
with two annual focus groups per site with 10 implementers in each 
group (10 x 2 x 4 = 80 total parent program implementer participants).
    School leadership: based on the predicted number of two school 
leadership per comprehensive school (21 schools), the number of 
respondents will be 42.
    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.
    Community Advisory Board Representative: based on the predicted 
number of 20 community representatives per 4 communities/sites, the 
number of respondents will be 80.
    Parent Program Manager: With a maximum of one parent program 
manager per community/site, the number of program manager respondents 
will be 4. It is anticipated that they will receive up to 50 TA 
requests per year and complete the form 50 times.
    Student Program Master Trainer TA Form: With a maximum of 3 master 
trainers per community. There will be 12 master trainers. It is 
anticipated that they will receive up to 50 TA requests per year and 
complete the form 50 times.
    Parent Curricula Implementers: It is expected that each school 
implementing the comprehensive approach (n = 21) will have two 
implementers (or 42 parent program implementer respondents). Please 
note that on the burden table the number of respondents is multiplied 
by the number of sessions in each parent program.
    Student Curricula Implementers: based on the predicted number of 20 
student curricula implementers per grade per site that will be 
completing fidelity instruments, the total number of respondents will 
be 80 per grade (20 x 4).
    Brand Ambassadors: The Brand Ambassador Implementation Survey will 
be provided to each brand ambassador (n = 20) in each community with a 
maximum of 80 brand ambassadors.
    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.
    Parent Program Participants: The 6th and 7th grade parent 
satisfaction questionnaires will be completed by parent participating 
in the parent program in each community. There is a maximum number of 
parent respondents of 1,890 (18 x 5 x 21) for the 6th grade 
satisfaction questionnaire and 1,890 for the 7th grade satisfaction 
questionnaire.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

                                                               Estimated Annualized Burden
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                                                                                                             Number of    Average burden
               Type of respondent                               Form name                    Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                                                            respondents     respondent        (hours)         (hours)
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Student Program Participant....................  Student Outcome Survey Baseline--                11,286               1           45/60           8,465
                                                  Attachment D:

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Student Program Participant....................  Student Outcome Survey Follow-up--               10,692               1           50/60           8,910
                                                  Attachment E:
School data extractor..........................  School Indicators--Attachment G........              44             342           15/60           3,762
Parent Program Participant.....................  Parent Outcome Baseline Survey--                  1,919               1               1           1,919
                                                  Attachment H.
Parent Program Participant.....................  Parent Outcome Follow-up Survey--                 1,818               1               1           1,818
                                                  Attachment EEEE.
Educator.......................................  Educator Outcome Survey (baseline)--              1,672               1           30/60             836
                                                  Attachment I.
Student Brand ambassador.......................  Brand Ambassador Implementation Survey--             80               2           20/60              53
                                                  Attachment J.
School leadership..............................  School Leadership Capacity and                       42               1               1              42
                                                  Readiness Survey--Attachment K.
Parent Curricula Implementer...................  Parent Program Fidelity 6th Grade                   210               3           15/60             158
                                                  Session 1-Session 6--Attachment L-Q.
Parent Curricula Implementer...................  Parent Program Fidelity 7th Grade                   126               3           15/60              95
                                                  Session 1, 3, 5--Attachment R-T.
Student Curricula Implementer..................  Student Program Fidelity 6th Grade                  480               1           15/60             120
                                                  Session 1-Session 6--Attachment U-Z.
Student Curricula Implementer..................  Student Program Fidelity 7th Grade                  560               1           15/60             140
                                                  Session 1-Session 7--Attachment AA-GG.
Student Curricula Implementer..................  Student Program Fidelity 8th Grade                  800               1           15/60             200
                                                  Session 1-Session 10 (comprehensive)--
                                                  Attachment HH-QQ.
Communications Coordinator.....................  Communications Campaign Tracking--                    4               4           20/60               5
                                                  Attachment RR.
Local Health Department Representative.........  Local Health Department Capacity and                 16               1               2              32
                                                  Readiness--Attachment SS.
Student Program Participant....................  Student participant focus group guide                80               1             1.5             120
                                                  (time spent in focus group)--
                                                  Attachment ZZ.
Student Curricula Implementer..................  Student curricula implementer focus                  80               1               1              80
                                                  group guide (time spent in focus
                                                  group)--Attachment AAA.
Parent Curricula Implementer...................  Parent curricula implementer focus                   80               1               1              80
                                                  group guide (time spent in focus
                                                  group)--Attachment BBB.
Student Curricula Implementer..................  Safe Dates 8th Grade Session 1-Session              800               1           15/60             200
                                                  10 (standard)--Attachment CCC-LLL.
Student Master Trainer.........................  Student program master trainer TA form--             12              50           10/60             100
                                                  Attachment DDDD.
Educator.......................................  Educator Outcome Survey (follow-up)--             1,584               1           30/60             792
                                                  Attachment IIII.
Community Advisory Board Member................  Community Capacity/Readiness                         80               1               1              80
                                                  Assessment--Attachment JJJJ.
Students.......................................  Communications Focus Groups--Attachment              96               1             1.5             144
                                                  KKKK.
Parent Program Manager.........................  Parent Program Manager TA Tracking                    4              50           10/60              33
                                                  Form--Attachment LLLL.
Parent Program Participant.....................  6th Grade Curricula Parent Satisfaction           1,890               1           10/60             315
                                                  Questionnaire--Attachment MMMM.
Parent Program Participant.....................  7th Grade Curricula Parent Satisfaction           1,890               1           10/60             315
                                                  Questionnaire--Attachment NNNN.
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    Total......................................  .......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............          28,814
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LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-00586 Filed 1-14-14; 8:45 am]
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