[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 29, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38183-38184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16290]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Agency Recordkeeping/Reporting Requirements Under Emergency
Review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Title: Evaluation of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Approaches:
Baseline Data Collection.
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OMB No.: 0970-0360.
Description: The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), is overseeing and coordinating adolescent
pregnancy prevention evaluation efforts as part of the Teen Pregnancy
Prevention Initiative. OAH is working collaboratively with the Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the
Administration for Children and Families (ACF) on adolescent pregnancy
prevention evaluation activities.
The Evaluation of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Approaches (PPA)
is one of these efforts. PPA is a random assignment evaluation which
will expand available evidence on effective ways to reduce teen
pregnancy. The evaluation will document and test a range of pregnancy
prevention approaches in up to eight program sites. The findings from
the evaluation will be of interest to the general public, to policy-
makers, and to organizations interested in teen pregnancy prevention.
OAH and ACF are proposing baseline data collection activity as part
of the PPA evaluation. Baseline data collection instruments were
already approved on July 26, 2010. The project has worked in recent
months to secure grantees as evaluation sites, and as part of this
effort the project has undertaken making revisions to the baseline
instrument with each site. These revisions were undertaken because each
site has unique features (e.g. target population; curriculum;
objectives) and the baseline instruments were tailored to take these
features into account. OAH and ACF are now requesting emergency
clearance to collect data using site-specific instruments.
Respondents will be asked to answer carefully selected questions
about demographics and risk and protective factors related to teen
pregnancy. Information from this data collection will be used to
perform meaningful analysis to determine significant program effects.
Respondents: The survey data will be collected through private,
self-administered questionnaires completed by study participants, i.e.
adolescents assigned to a select school or community teen pregnancy
prevention program or a control group. Surveys will be distributed and
collected by trained professional staff.
Annual Burden Estimates
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No. of Average burden
Site/program (and name of baseline instrument) Annualized no. responses per hours per Total burden
of respondents respondent response hours (annual)
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Children's Hospital of Los Angeles/Project AIM.. 467 1 .7 327
Oklahoma Institute of Child Advocacy/Power 360 1 .6 216
Through Choices................................
Engender Health/Gender Matters.................. 375 1 .6 225
Ohio Health/T.O.P.P............................. 200 1 .7 140
Live the Life Ministries/WAIT Training.......... 533 1 .7 373
Princeton Center for Leadership Training (PCLT)/ 533 1 .6 320
TeenPEP........................................
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Total....................................... 2468 .............. .............. 1601
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1601.
Additional Information:
ACF is requesting that OMB grant a 180 day approval for this
information collection under procedures for emergency processing by
July 1, 2011. A copy of this information collection, with applicable
supporting documentation, may be obtained by e-mailing
[email protected].
Comments and questions about the information collection described
above should be directed to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for ACF, Office of Management and
Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th Street NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Fax (202) 395-6974.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-16290 Filed 6-28-11; 8:45 am]
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