[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33674-33676]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11799]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-20-20OG; Docket No. CDC-2020-0057]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or 
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed 
information collection project titled ``Assessments of adults' 
professional experiences for improving programs to decrease sexual risk 
and related behaviors and adverse health outcomes among youth,'' a 
generic information collection package that supports qualitative and 
quantitative data collection from adults who help implement programs 
and services designed to prevent HIV, other sexually transmitted 
diseases (STDs), and pregnancy or influence related risk and protective 
factors; data will be collected for needs assessment and program 
refinement.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 3, 2020.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2020-
0057 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection Review 
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road 
NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments 
to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: Submit all comments through the Federal eRulemaking 
portal (regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the address listed 
above.


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection 
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton 
Road NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 
collection before submitting the collection to the OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
    1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submissions of responses.
    5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

    Assessments of adults' professional experiences for improving 
programs to decrease sexual risk and related behaviors and adverse 
health outcomes among youth--New--Division of Adolescent and School 
Health (DASH), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and 
TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requests 
approval for a new generic information collection package that supports 
collection of quantitative and qualitative information from adults who 
help implement programs and services designed to prevent HIV, other 
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy or influence 
related risk and protective factors; data will be collected for needs 
assessment and program refinement. The National Center for HIV/AIDS, 
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) conducts the 
assessment of program practices and health services to reduce sexual 
risk behaviors among adolescents and reduce adverse health outcomes of 
those risk behaviors.
    NCHHSTP conducts behavioral and health service assessments and 
research projects as part of its response to the domestic HIV/AIDS 
epidemic, STD prevention, TB elimination and viral hepatitis control 
with national, state, and local partners. Adolescents are a population 
with specific developmental, health and social, and resource needs. 
Their health risk factors and access to health care is addressed as a 
primary mission by the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH), 
and adolescents are a population of interest for several other NCHHSTP 
divisions. The assessment and research conducted by NCHHSTP is one 
pillar upon which recommendations and guidelines are revised and 
updated. Recommendations and guidelines for adolescent sexual risk 
reduction require a foundation of scientific evidence. Assessment of 
programmatic practices for adolescents helps improve programs through 
better identification of strategies relevant to adolescents as a 
population as well as specific sub-groups of adolescents at highest 
risk for HIV and other STDs so that programs can be better tailored 
specifically for them.
    Participants in data collection include adults (over 18 years old) 
who help implement or oversee programs to prevent HIV, other sexually 
transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy among youth or influence 
related risk and protective factors. These participants may include 
adults in roles such as:
 School staff and administrators
 Staff in state and local education agencies
 Staff in state and local health agencies
 Staff in youth-serving community and national non-governmental 
organizations
 Community-based health care providers for adolescents
 School-based health care providers for students
    The types of information collection activities included in this 
generic package are:
    (1) Quantitative data collection conducted in-person on remotely 
through electronic (via computers, tablets, other mobile devices, 
etc.), telephone, or paper questionnaires to gather information about 
programmatic and service activities related to sexual risk reduction or 
related adverse health outcomes among youth. Questions relate to work-
related experiences, training, context, duties, activities, and youths' 
health and service needs. Information may also be gathered on program 
implementers' demographic and social characteristics, program-related 
knowledge, attitudes, skills, and implementation practices.
    (2) Qualitative data collection in-person or remotely through 
electronic, telephone, or paper means to gather information about 
program and service activities related to sexual risk reduction or 
prevention of related adverse health outcomes among youth. Qualitative 
data collection may involve focus groups and/or in-depth individual or 
group interviews. Interview and focus group guides may include 
questions about work-related experiences, training, context, duties, 
activities, and youths' health and service needs. Information may also 
be gathered on program implementers' demographic and social 
characteristics, program-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and 
implementation practices. For adolescents, data collection instruments 
will include questions on demographic characteristics; experiences with 
programs and services to reduce the risk of HIV and other STD 
transmission; and knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills related 
to sexual risk and protective factors on the individual, interpersonal, 
and community levels.
    The participants for this data collection are considered to be the 
``implementers'' of the types of programs that are funded by CDC/DASH. 
Typically, CDC/DASH programs are intended to have direct impact on 
proximal indicators such as sexual health-related knowledge, attitudes, 
perceptions, and behaviors among youth, and although CDC/DASH programs 
are typically set in schools, they can be implemented by adults who 
working in a variety of school, community, and health-care roles.
    Any data collection request put forward under this generic 
clearance will identify the programs and/or services to be informed or 
refined with the information from the collection and will include a 
cross-walk of data elements to the aspects of the program

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the project team seeks to inform or refine. Because this request 
includes a wide range of possible data collection instruments, specific 
requests will include items of information to be collected and copies 
of data collection instruments. It is expected that all data collection 
instruments will be pilot-tested, and will be culturally appropriate 
for the intended populations. All data collection procedures will 
receive review and approval by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) for 
the Protection of Human Subjects and follow appropriate consent and 
assent procedures as outlined in the IRB-approved protocols and these 
will be described in the individual information collection requests put 
forward under this generic package. Participation of respondents is 
voluntary. There is no cost to the participants other than their time.
    The table below provides the estimated annualized response burden 
for up to 20 individual data collections per year under this generic 
clearance at 58,500 hours annually. Average burden per response is 
based on pilot testing and timing of quantitative and qualitative 
instrument administration during previous studies. Response times 
include the time to read and respond to consent forms and to read or 
listen to instructions. The proposed information collections combine 
for a total estimated annualized burden of up to 60,000 hours for 
respondents.

                                                            Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                          Number of      Average burden
               Type of respondents                             Form name                 Number of      responses per     per response     Total burden
                                                                                        respondents       respondent       (in hours)       (in hours)
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Adults helping with program implementation        Questionnaire.....................           15,000                1                1           15,000
 (e.g., school or district staff, community
 partners, NGO staff).
Adults helping with program implementation......  Pre/Post questionnaire............           15,000                2                1           30,000
Adults helping with program implementation......  Interview/focus group guide.......            4,000                1              1.5            6,000
Adults helping with program implementation......  Pre/Post Interview/focus group                3,000                2              1.5            9,000
                                                   guide.
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    Total.......................................  ..................................  ...............  ...............  ...............           60,000
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2020-11799 Filed 6-1-20; 8:45 am]
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