[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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