[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 191 (Tuesday, October 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60127-60128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24249]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
periodically publishes abstracts of information collection requests
under review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in
compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter
35). To request a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for
review, email [email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance
Office at (301) 443-1984.
The following request has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995:
Proposed Project: Healthy Weight Collaborative Evaluation (OMB No.
0915-xxxx)--[NEW]
Background: Supported by the Prevention and Public Health Fund
created by Section 4002 of the Affordable Care Act, HRSA awarded $5
million to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality
(NICHQ) to create the Collaborative for Healthy Weight, a national
initiative to bring together primary care providers, public health
professionals, and leaders of community-based organizations to use
quality improvement methods to address the obesity epidemic in
communities across the country. A key part of that initiative was
creation of the Healthy Weight Collaborative (HWC), a quality
improvement project working with 50 community teams to identify, test,
and evaluate a national ``change package'' of evidence-based program
and policy interventions to address childhood obesity. The HWC is being
implemented in two consecutive phases, each with a series of learning
sessions and action periods. The first phase (July 2011 to July 2012)
includes 10 community teams; the second phase (March 2012 to March
2013) includes 40 additional teams.
Purpose: The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the quality
and effectiveness of the HWC. This one-year information collection will
supplement the analysis of existing quantitative HWC administrative and
team data by collecting primary data using individual and group
interviews with two groups of stakeholders: (a) NICHQ project
leadership, staff, and faculty; and (b) community team members at 11
selected sites (four Phase 1 teams and seven Phase 2 teams). Data from
these interviews will be used to evaluate the quality and effectiveness
of the HWC. NICHQ leadership, staff, and faculty interview topics
include: the design and implementation of the HWC project; the content
and quality of the HWC learning sessions, coaching assistance, and
other action period activities; the community teams' experiences
implementing the
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HWC change package and quality improvement indicators; and
stakeholders' perceptions of the quality and effectiveness of the HWC
in accelerating community efforts to address childhood obesity.
Community team interviews will be conducted with the team coordinator,
the quality improvement data manager, and other team members, including
primary care providers, public health officials, school administrators,
and other community volunteers. Separate interview protocols will be
developed for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 community teams. Phase 1
protocols will examine community team strategies, activities, and
approaches that have been sustained and spread after the end of Phase
1. Phase 2 protocols will examine: (1) Team goals, objectives, and
program elements; (2) team implementation of the HWC change package;
(3) team engagement in HWC activities; and (4) team linkages and
organizational and policy changes resulting from the team's
participation in the HWC.
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total burden
Instrument respondents respondent responses response hours
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NICHQ Leaders Interview......... 4 1 4 1.0 4.0
NICHQ Staff Interview........... 5 1 5 1.0 5.0
NICHQ Faculty Group Interview... * 6 1 6 1.0 6.0
Phase 1 Team Group Interview.... ** 24 1 24 1.5 36.0
Phase 1 Team Coordinator 4 1 4 1.5 6.0
Interview......................
Phase 1 Team Data Manager 4 1 4 .5 2.0
Interview......................
Phase 2 Team Group Interview.... *** 42 1 42 1.5 63.0
Phase 2 Team Coordinator 7 1 7 1.5 10.5
Interview......................
Phase 2 Team Data Manager 7 1 7 .5 3.5
Interview......................
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Total....................... 103 .............. 103 .............. 136.0
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* One group interview: 6 people per group.
** Four group interviews: 6 people per group.
*** Seven group interviews: 6 people per group.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: September 26, 2012.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-24249 Filed 10-1-12; 8:45 am]
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