[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 27, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70781-70782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-28723]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-13-0914]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Send written comments
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC
20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received
within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Workplace Violence Prevention Programs in NJ Healthcare Facilities
(0920-0914, Expiration 1/31/2015)--Revision--National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Healthcare workers are nearly five times more likely to be victims
of violence than workers in all industries combined. While healthcare
workers are not at particularly high risk for job-related homicide,
nearly 60% of all nonfatal assaults occurring in private industry are
experienced in healthcare. Six states have enacted laws to reduce
violence against healthcare workers by requiring workplace violence
prevention programs. However, little is understood about how effective
these laws are in reducing violence against healthcare workers.
The objective of the proposed study is three-fold: (1) To examine
healthcare facility compliance with the New Jersey Violence Prevention
in Health Care Facilities Act, (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the
regulations in this Act in reducing assault injuries to workers. Our
central hypothesis is that facilities with high compliance with the
regulations will have lower rates of
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employee violence-related injury, and (3) evaluate the assault injury
rate. The long-term goal of the proposed project is to reduce violence
against healthcare workers.
CDC currently has approval to evaluate the legislation at hospitals
and to conduct a nurse survey. Data collection is ongoing at the
hospitals and for the nurse survey.
This revision will add two new respondent groups: Nursing homes and
home healthcare aides. We will conduct face-to-face interviews with the
Chairs of the Violence Prevention Committees in 20 nursing homes who
are in charge of overseeing compliance efforts. The purpose of the
interviews is to measure compliance to the state regulations. The
details of their Workplace Violence Prevention Program are in their
existing policies and procedures. We will also collect assault injury
data from nursing homes' violent event reports 3 years pre-regulation
(2009-2011) and 3 years post-regulation (2012-2014). This data is
captured in existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) logs and is publicly available. The purpose of collecting these
data is to evaluate changes in assault injury rates before and after
enactment of the regulations.
We will also conduct a home healthcare aide survey (4000
respondents or 1333 annually). This survey will describe the workplace
violence prevention training that home healthcare aides receive. Home
healthcare aides will be recruited from a mailing list of home
healthcare aides certified from the State of New Jersey Division of
Consumer Affairs Board of Nursing. The mailing list was selected as the
population source of workers due to the ability to capture all home
healthcare aides in New Jersey.
We will test our central hypothesis by accomplishing the following
specific aims:
1. Compare the comprehensiveness of nursing home workplace violence
prevention programs before and after enactment of the New Jersey
regulations in nursing homes; Working hypothesis: Based on our
preliminary research, we hypothesize that enactment of the regulations
will improve the comprehensiveness of nursing home workplace violence
prevention program policies, procedures and training. Questions will
also be asked about barriers and facilitators to developing the
violence prevention program. These data will be collected in the post-
regulation time period.
2. Describe the workplace violence prevention training home
healthcare aides receive following enactment of the New Jersey
regulations; Working hypothesis: Based on our preliminary research, we
hypothesize that home healthcare aides receive at least 80% of the
workplace violence prevention training components mandated in the New
Jersey regulations.
3. Examine patterns of assault injuries to nursing home workers
before and after enactment of the regulations; Working hypothesis:
Based on our preliminary research, we hypothesize that rates of assault
injuries to nursing home workers will decrease following enactment of
the regulations.
A contractor will conduct the interviews, collect the nursing
homes' policies and procedures, and collect the assault injury data.
No employee or perpetrator identifiable information will be
collected.
The Health Professionals and Allied Employees union will promote
the survey to their members. To maintain the worker's anonymity, the
home healthcare agency in which he/she works will not be identified.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The estimated
total annualized burden hours are 960.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hrs)
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Hospital Administrators............ Evaluation of 17 1 1
Hospital Workplace
Violence Prevention
Program (C1).
Hospital Administrators............ Committee Chair 17 1 1
Interview (C2).
Hospital Administrators............ Employee Incident 17 1 1
Information (C3).
Nursing Home Administrators........ Evaluation of Nursing 7 1 1
Home Workplace
Violence Prevention
Program (C1).
Nursing Home Administrators........ Committee Chair 7 1 1
Interview (C2).
Nursing Home Administrators........ Employee Incident 7 1 1
Information (C3).
Nurses (RN and LPN)................ Healthcare Facility 1333 1 20/60
Workplace Violence
Prevention Programs
Nurse Survey (C4).
Home Healthcare Aides.............. Healthcare Facility 1333 1 20/60
Workplace Violence
Prevention Programs
Home Healthcare Aide
Survey (C5).
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Dated: November 19, 2012.
Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI), Office of the Associate
Director for Science (OADS), Office of the Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-28723 Filed 11-26-12; 8:45 am]
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