[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3237-3239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01009]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-15-15KX]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility
of government information, invites the general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction
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Act of 1995. To request more information on the below proposed project
or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments,
call 404-639-7570 or send comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton
Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Assessing Community-Based Organizations' Partnerships with Schools
for the Prevention of HIV/STDs--New--Division of Adolescent and School
Health (DASH), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and
TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
HIV infections remain high among young men who have sex with men
(YMSM). The estimated number of new HIV infections increased between
2008 and 2010 both overall and among MSM ages 13 to 24. Furthermore,
sexual risk behaviors associated with HIV, other sexually transmitted
disease (STD), and pregnancy often emerge in adolescence. For example,
2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) data revealed
47.4% of U.S. high school students reported having had sex, and among
those who had sex in the previous three months, 39.8% reported having
not used a condom during last sexual intercourse. In addition, 2001-
2009 YRBSS data revealed high school students identifying as gay,
lesbian, and bisexual and those reporting sexual contact with both
males and females were more likely to engage in sexual risk-taking
behaviors than heterosexual students.
Given the disproportionate risk for HIV among YMSM ages 13-24, it
is important to find ways to reach the younger youth (i.e., ages 13-19)
in this range to decrease sexual risk behaviors and increase health-
promoting behaviors such as routine HIV testing. Schools provide one
opportunity for this. Because schools enroll more than 22 million teens
(ages 14-19) and often have existing health and social services
infrastructure, schools and their staff members are well-positioned to
connect youth to a wide range of needed services, including housing
assistance, support groups, and sexual health services such as HIV
testing. As a result, CDC's DASH has focused a number of HIV and STD
prevention efforts on strategies that can be implemented in or centered
on schools.
However, conducting HIV and STD prevention work (particularly work
that is designed to specifically meet the needs of YMSM), can be
challenging. School is not always a welcoming environment for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Harassment,
bullying, and verbal and physical assault are often reported, and such
unsupportive environments and victimization among LGBT youth are
associated with a variety of negative outcomes, including truancy,
substance use, poor mental health, HIV and STD risk, and even suicide.
Schools build partnerships with community-based organizations to
increase access to needed services of LGBTQ youth.
The CDC requests a 3-year OMB approval to conduct a new information
collection entitled, ``Assessing Community-Based Organizations'
Partnerships with Schools for the Prevention of HIV/STDs.'' The
information collection will allow CDC to conduct assessment of selected
staff from community-based organizations (CBOs) and health and/or
wellness centers (HWCs), including school-based health centers, at
participating schools or to which YMSM from participating schools are
referred. This is part of the HIV and STD prevention efforts that are
taking place in conjunction with local education agencies (LEAs) funded
by the CDC, Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) under
strategy 4 (School-Centered HIV/STD Prevention for Young Men Who Have
Sex with Men) of PS13-1308: Promoting Adolescent Health through School-
Based HIV/STD Prevention and School-Based Surveillance. This
information collection will provide data and reports for the three
funded LEAs, and will allow each LEA to identify areas of the
partnerships with CBOs and HWCs that are working well and other areas
that will need additional improvement. In addition, the findings will
allow the CDC to determine the potential impact of currently
recommended strategies and make changes to those recommendations if
necessary.
This information collection system involves administration of a
web-based questionnaire to no more than 60 total staff members who work
for up to 60 CBOs and HWCs that are participating in the HIV/STD
prevention project with the three LEAs (Broward County Public Schools
in Broward County, Florida; Los Angeles Unified School District in Los
Angeles, California; and San Francisco Unified School District in San
Francisco, California) funded by CDC cooperative agreement PS13-1308.
These LEAs represent all funded LEAs under Strategy 4 of PS13-1308. The
questionnaire will include questions on the following topics: services
offered by the organization and the organization's relationships with
the school district and participating schools in the LEA.
The Web-based instrument will be administered in the 2015 and again
in 2016 and 2018. These data collection points coincide with the
initiation of project activities, the mid-way point, and endpoint of
the PS13-1308 cooperative agreement. Although some respondents may
participate in the data collection in multiple years, this is not a
longitudinal design and individual staff member responses will not be
tracked across the years. No personally identifiable information will
be collected and data will only be reported in the aggregate to protect
the CBOs and HWCs being represented.
All respondents will receive informed consent forms prior to
participation in the information collection. The consent form explains
the study and also explains that participants may choose not to
complete the Web-based questionnaire with no penalty and no impact on
their job or relationship with
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the LEA. Participation is completely voluntary.
For the Web-based questionnaire, the estimated burden per response
is about 60 minutes (1 hour). This estimate of burden is an average and
takes into account that the length of the questionnaire for each
respondent will vary slightly due to the skip patterns that may occur
with certain responses, variations in the reading speed of respondents,
and variations in the time required to collect the information needed
to complete the questionnaire.
The estimated annualized burden of this data collection is 60 hours
for respondents.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualize Burden to Respondents
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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CBO staff..................... CBO Assessment 30 1 1 30
Questionnaire.
HWC staff..................... HWC Assessment 30 1 1 30
Questionnaire.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 60
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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. 2015-01009 Filed 1-21-15; 8:45 am]
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