[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 53 (Friday, March 18, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14866-14867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-06074]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day Comment Request; Self-
Affirmation Construct Validity
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute, the National
Institutes of Health, has submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information
collection listed below. This proposed information collection was
previously published in the Federal Register on January 14, 2016, Vol.
81 pp. 1985 and allowed 60-days for public comment. No public comments
were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30
days for public comment. The National Cancer Institute, National
Institutes of Health, may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is
not required to respond to, an information collection that has been
extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless
it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974,
Attention: NIH Desk Officer.
Comment Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days
of the date of this publication.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To obtain a copy of the data
collection plans and instruments, or request more information on the
proposed project, contact: Rebecca Ferrer, Program Director, Basic
Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch, Behavioral Research
Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National
Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr., Rockville, MD 20852 or call
non-toll-free number (240) 276-6914 or Email your request, including
your address to: [email protected]. Formal requests for additional
plans and instruments must be requested in writing.
Proposed Collection: Self-Affirmation Construct Validity, 0925--
NEW, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health
(NIH).
Need and Use of Information Collection: This information
collection, seeks to refine a theory about how self-competence and
values play a role in defensive responses to health communications.
Although theoretically-driven research has shown that self-
affirmation--a process by which individuals reflect on values that are
important to them--can improve responses to health and cancer
communications, the ``active ingredient'' (or mechanisms underlying
effectiveness) of self-affirmations is unknown. Self-affirmation is a
potent means of augmenting the effectiveness of threatening health
communications. Individuals tend to be defensive against information
suggesting their behavior puts them at risk for disease or negative
health. Previous evidence suggests that self-affirmation may reduce
defensiveness to threatening health information, increasing openness to
the message and resulting in increased disease risk perceptions,
disease-related worry, intentions to engage in preventive behavior, and
actual behavioral change. Understanding the mechanisms that explain
these robust effects would yield evidence important for dissemination,
including ways to refine self-affirmation interventions and make them
more potent, which could change the ways that public health messages
are constructed. This research can inform NCI scientific priorities and
investments in self-affirmation research. The results of the
information collection will be used to further develop and improve
self-affirmation theory. These findings may allow future researchers to
develop and test cancer prevention interventions.
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OMB approval is requested for 3 years. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized
burden hours are 717.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average
Form name Types of Number of responses per burden (in Total hour
respondents respondents respondent hours) burden
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Screener...................... General Public.. 10,000 1 1/60 167
Study......................... General Public.. 1,100 1 30/60 550
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Total..................... ................ 10,000 11,100 .............. 717
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Dated: March 7, 2016.
Karla Bailey,
Project Clearance Liaison, National Cancer Institute, NIH.
[FR Doc. 2016-06074 Filed 3-17-16; 8:45 am]
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