[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 127 (Monday, July 2, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30942-30943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-14203]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

[Document Identifier: OS-0990--new]


Agency Information Collection Request; 60-Day Public Comment 
Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and 
Human Services, is publishing the following summary of a proposed 
collection for public comment.

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DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before August 31, 
2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or by calling 
(202) 795-7714.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the document identifier 0990-New-60D and 
project title for reference., to [email protected], or call the 
Reports Clearance Officer.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested persons are invited to send 
comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this 
collection of information, including any of the following subjects: (1) 
The necessity and utility of the proposed information collection for 
the proper performance of the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of 
the estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology to minimize the information collection burden.
    Title of the Collection: SMARTool Pilot Replication Project.
    Type of Collection: OMB No. 0990-NEW--Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Health (OASH).
    Abstract: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is requesting 
approval by OMB of a new information collection request. OASH is 
updating the Center for Relationship Education's Systematic Method for 
Assessing Risk-Avoidance Tool (SMARTool), a tool for sexual risk 
avoidance (SRA) curriculum developers and implementing organizations 
(IOs) to ensure that their SRA curricula are grounded in evidence. In 
an effort to assess the SMARTool's impact, OASH aims to conduct a 
formative evaluation to (1) provide preliminary evidence on the 
effectiveness of SRA curricula that are aligned with the SMARTool, (2) 
derive lessons learned to improve the implementation of SRA curricula, 
and (3) develop and test baseline and follow-up questionnaires that 
assess SRA program effects on the key SMARTool constructs. The 
evaluation will be conducted with an estimated four IOs. The evaluation 
will use quantitative and qualitative methods and will include both a 
process evaluation and an outcome evaluation.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: To enhance the rigor of 
the evaluation, a comparison group will be identified for each IO, if 
possible. This would enable an assessment of whether any changes 
identified in individual and contextual risk and protective factors in 
the intervention group differ from those in the comparison group. The 
process evaluation will describe in detail each IO's program, how it 
was delivered, and factors that may have influenced the success of the 
program's implementation. Process evaluation data are necessary for the 
interpretation of outcome findings and to inform efforts to improve 
program implementation. Depending on their performance on measures of 
reliability and validity, the baseline and follow-up questionnaires may 
be made available to organizations planning to evaluate curricula that 
are aligned with the SMARTool.
    Likely respondents: Respondents will include participants in each 
of the IOs' SRA programs (9th or 10th grade youth), their parent(s), 
program facilitators, representatives of schools participating in the 
program (e.g., school principals), and school or school district 
administrative staff.

                               Exhibit 1--Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Respondents               Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)        (hours)
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                                               Outcome Evaluation
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Parents.......................  Parental consent           2,356               1            5/60             196
High school students..........  Youth Assent....           2,356               1            5/60             196
                                Baseline survey.           2,356               1           30/60            1178
                                Follow-up survey           2,120               1           30/60            1060
School or school district       Classroom roster              24               1          120/60              48
 administrative staff.           report.
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                                               Process Evaluation
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Program Facilitators..........  Process                       48              20           15/60             240
                                 Evaluation
                                 Facilitator
                                 Session Log.
Program Facilitators..........  Process                       38               1           25/60              16
                                 Evaluation
                                 Facilitator
                                 Survey.
High school students..........  Process                    1,060               1           10/60             177
                                 Evaluation
                                 Participant
                                 Survey.
Program facilitators, site      Process                       24               1           60/60              24
 representatives.                Evaluation Key
                                 Informant
                                 Interviews.
Teachers......................  Attendance form.              48              20            5/60              80
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    Total burden..............  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           3,135
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Terry Clark,
 Asst Information Collection Clearance Officer, Office of the 
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-14203 Filed 6-29-18; 8:45 am]
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