[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 69 (Thursday, April 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19913-19914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-08012]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-14-14OE]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or
send comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Monitoring and Reporting System for the Rape Prevention and
Education Program Awardees--NEW--National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Sexual violence is a major public health problem. According CDC's
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS,
OMB 0920-0822), in the United States, nearly 1 in 5 women and
1 in 71 men have been raped in their lifetime, while 1 in 2 women and 1
in 5 men have experienced severe sexual violence victimization other
than rape at some point in their lives, with the majority of
victimization starting early in life. According to NISVS, approximately
80% of female victims experienced their first rape before the age of 25
and almost half experienced the first rape before age 18. Among male
victims, 28% were first raped when they were 10 year old or younger.
NISVS also found that early sexual victimization increases women's risk
of adult victimization: Approximately 35% of women who were raped as
minors were also raped as adults compared to 14% of women without an
early rape history.
State health departments and the community-based organizations
funded to implement sexual violence prevention strategies have
variable, often low, levels of capacity and infrastructure to engage in
program improvement and systematically collect data about sexual
violence as well as the prevention strategies they are implementing.
Historically, some health departments and funded community-based
organizations have not had adequate resources to support a full-time
staff person to deliver and implement prevention strategies.
Additionally, while sexual violence prevention practitioners have
undergone a sea change and expanded their focus from raising awareness
of the problem to implementing primary prevention strategies, improved
implementation based on best-available practices in prevention is still
needed.
CDC, through the Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program,
supports sexual violence prevention by implementing primary prevention
strategies using a public health approach and effective prevention
principles. The current cooperative agreement will advance this goal by
supporting RPE funded organizations to implement sexual violence
prevention strategies that adhere to general principles of effective
prevention strategies. These principles include: Addressing modifiable
risk and protective factors for perpetration and victimization,
addressing multiple levels of the social ecology, emphasizing primary
prevention, having sufficient dosage or intensity, being culturally
relevant, being developed and implemented with stakeholders and based
on best available evidence. Additionally, it aims to improve program
evaluation infrastructure and capacity at the state level.
In order to accomplish these goals, the program strategy involves
the focused implementation of three main components:
[cir] Component 1--Implementation and program evaluation of sexual
violence (SV) prevention strategies using a public health approach
(this includes expectations that program evaluation activities are
conducted at the state level.
[cir] Component 2--Provision of Training and Technical Assistance
to RPE funded organizations on the implementation of SV prevention
strategies.
[cir] Component 3--Participation in program support activities.
The primary outcome of interest is the improved ability of RPE
funded organizations to use the public health approach and effective
prevention principles to implement and evaluate sexual violence
prevention strategies.
CDC seeks a 3-year Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval
to collect information electronically from awardees funded under the
RPE cooperative agreement. Information will be collected from RPE
awardees through an electronic data management information system; the
Rape Prevention and Education Management Information System (RPE-MIS).
The RPE-MIS will be used to collect information about the staffing
resources dedicated by each awardee, as well as partnerships with
external organizations. The RPE-MIS requires awardees to define their
program objectives in action-oriented SMART (Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Framed) format, identify their target
population and associated strategies citing the best available evidence
and data sources, establish the link between their objectives, chosen
strategies and the target population, and provide quantifiable
performance measures associated with the chosen strategies. Information
collected through the RPE-MIS will be used to inform performance
monitoring, and program evaluation.
Anticipated respondents are a maximum of 55 awardees for the RPE
Program. All respondents will be state and territorial health
departments or designated personnel from their partner sexual assault
coalitions. The time commitments for data entry and training are
greatest during the initial population of the RPE-MIS, typically in the
first six months of implementation. Estimated burden for the first-time
population of the RPE-MIS is fifteen hours. Annual Reporting is
estimated at three hours per respondent.
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There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden to Respondents
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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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State and Territorial Health RPE-MIS: Initial 55 1 15 825
Departments or Sexual Assault population.
Coalition Designee.
RPE-MIS: Annual 55 1 3 165
reporting.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 990
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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.
[FR Doc. 2014-08012 Filed 4-9-14; 8:45 am]
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