[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 135 (Monday, July 15, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42079-42080]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16772]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-13-0861]
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 or
by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
A Controlled Evaluation of Expect Respect Support Groups (ERSG):
Preventing and Interrupting Teen Dating Violence among At-Risk Middle
and High School Students (0920-0861, Expiration 8/31/2013)--Extension--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Division of
Violence Prevention (DVP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The prevalence and consequences of teen dating violence make it a
public health concern that requires early and effective prevention. To
date, only three prevention strategies--Safe Dates, the Youth
Relationships Project, and 4th R--have demonstrated reductions in
dating violence behaviors in rigorous, controlled evaluations. In order
to protect young people and build an evidence-base of effective
prevention strategies, evaluation of additional programs is needed,
including those programs currently in the field. The Expect Respect
Support Groups (ERSG; provided by SafePlace) program is currently being
implemented in the Austin Independent School District and demonstrated
promising results in an uncontrolled program evaluation, suggesting a
controlled evaluation is warranted to more rigorously examine program
effects.
This extension request is the controlled evaluation of ERSG, which
began in September 2010; it has one primary aim and two exploratory
aims. The primary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of ERSG to
prevent and reduce teen dating violence and increase healthy conflict
resolution skills reported by at-risk male and female middle and high
school students compared to at-risk students in control schools who do
not receive ERSG. The exploratory aims are: (1) To evaluate whether or
not the effectiveness of ERSG is enhanced by the presence of a
universal, school-wide prevention programs, and (2) To examine
moderators and mediators of targeted and universal teen dating violence
interventions, such as biological sex and history of abuse at intake.
Completion of this study and examination of the primary and exploratory
aims associated with it will help to fill a research gap by adding
results to the evidence base regarding whether ERSG is a promising
program for reducing the prevalence of teen dating violence and
increasing knowledge of healthy relationship skills.
The purpose of this request is to obtain Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval to extend the data collection for A Controlled
Evaluation of Expect Respect Support Groups (ERSG): Preventing and
Interrupting Teen Dating Violence among At-Risk Middle and High School
Students (OMB No.0920-0861, Expiration 8/31/2013). CDC seeks a three-
year approval to continue the ERSG project. The ongoing evaluation
employs a quasi-experimental/non-randomized design in which a
convenience sample of participants in schools receiving universal and/
or targeted prevention services are compared to students in control
schools in which no dating violence prevention services are available.
We will recruit 1,800 students (300 per year from intervention schools
and 300 per year from control schools) over three waves of data
collection. Of the 1,800 students recruited, we anticipate 1,200 will
have complete data at the end of the study period. Control schools have
been selected that have characteristics (e.g., risk status, socio-
economic status) similar to the Austin Independent School District
intervention schools.
Survey items collect information about emotional, physical, and
sexual peer and dating violence victimization and perpetration, use of
healthy relationship skills, relationships characteristics, peer
relationships, demographics, and use of other teen dating violence
prevention services, social desirability, and attitudes toward dating
violence. These measures were developed in collaboration with
scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and (1)
are adapted from validated measures of teen dating violence, and (2)
reflect the behaviors of interest and theory of change of Expect
Respect. The Reactive Proactive Questionnaire (Raine et al., 2006) has
also been included in the instrument packet and will be used to
determine if subtype of aggression moderates response to intervention.
Participation in this study is voluntary and intrusions to the
participants' sense of privacy will be minimized by only using data
collected from students who have agreed for us to do so (through
student assent and signed distribution of passive parental consent
forms) and having the data coded in such a way to protect subjects'
privacy.
Finally, ERSG facilitators will take part in qualitative interviews
planned for the middle (December) and end (May) of the second and third
years of data collection. The goal of these interviews is to better
understand the implementation process for ERSG.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Response
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per burden Total burden
respondents respondent (hours) hours
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Intervention and Control Schools............... Intake assessment...................... 800 1 15/60 200
Baseline Survey........................ 600 1 1 600
Completion Survey...................... 400 1 1 400
Follow-up Survey 1 (12 month).......... 400 1 1 400
ERSG Facilitator............................... ERSG Facilitator Program Implementation 8 2 15/60 4
Fidelity Measure.
ERSG Facilitator Supervisor.................... ERSG Observational Program 1 16 15/60 4
ERSG Facilitator............................... Implementation Fidelity Measure.
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ERSG Facilitator............................... Mid-Year Qualitative Interview with 8 1 45/60 6
ERSG Facilitators.
End of Year Qualitative Interview with 8 1 1 8
ERSG Facilitators.
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Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 1,622
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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