[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29320-29321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13739]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-13-99]
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
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-7090. Send written
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Projects
1. Evaluation of NCIPC Recommendations on Bicycle Helmet Use--
Reinstatement--The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's
(NCIPC), Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention (DUIP) intends to
continue to conduct a survey of 1,100 persons from its mailing lists
and lists of recipients of recommendations on the use of bicycle
helmets in preventing head injuries. These recommendations were
published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of February 17,
1995.
The purpose of this survey is to determine:
I. The penetration of the recommendations distribution,
II. The usefulness of the bicycle helmet recommendations,
III. How to improve the recommendations' content and format,
IV. Potential future DUIP bicycle helmet promotional activities,
V. Information needs and access points of DUIP's ``customers''.
Results from this research will be used to (1) assist DUIP in
producing an updated version of the helmet recommendations; (2)
identify new helmet promotion programmatic directions; and (3) develop
future materials that meet the needs of DUIP ``customers.'' The study
will be a telephone survey. The total annual burden hours are 311.
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Number of Avg. burden/
Forms Number of responses/ response (in
respondents respondent hrs.)
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Section A....................................................... 1,100 1 .01666
Sections B, C................................................... 550 1 .01333
Sections D, E, F................................................ 550 1 .01333
Sections G, H, I................................................ 1,100 1 .01333
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2. Children's Longitudinal Development Study--New--Since 1991,
surveillance of children aged three to ten years who have one or more
select developmental disabilities (cerebral palsy, mental retardation,
hearing impairment, and vision impairment) has been conducted in the
five-county Atlanta metropolitan area through the Metropolitan Atlanta
Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program (MADDSP). Children have
been identified primarily through the special education programs of the
public schools in those five counties. Recently, surveillance has been
expanded to identify children with cerebral palsy at younger ages
through a broader array of medical facilities where diagnostic
evaluations are performed, and to include autism as one of the
developmental disabilities routinely under surveillance. An ongoing
case-control study is proposed to yearly (1) contact parents of all
children with any of the five developmental disabilities who are newly
identified in the surveillance data base and who were born in the metro
Atlanta area (approximately 675 children per year) and contact parents
of 250 children used as controls in order to request access to both
maternal prenatal and labor and delivery hospital records and infant
hospital records prior to newborn discharge (all accessed medical
records will be reviewed to obtain detailed information on pre- and
perinatal risk factors for developmental disabilities; this type of
information typically is lacking or incomplete in school records or
childhood medical records) and (2) conduct telephone interviews with
mothers of approximately 250 children with cerebral palsy or severe
mental retardation selected from the larger pool of approximately 675
children, plus interview mothers of the 250 control children. The
interviews will supply additional risk factor information relating to
the mothers' medical and reproductive histories, prenatal behaviors and
exposures, and family histories of developmental problems. Initially,
to be cases, children in the interview sample would be under seven
years of age at the time they were diagnosed as having cerebral palsy
or severe mental retardation. A sample of Atlanta-born children of
similar age and birth weight to the interview case children would be
randomly identified from vital records and used as controls.
Additionally, photographs and head circumference measurements of case
and control mothers and children included in the interview sample will
be taken either in the home or at a centralized location. The total
annual burden hours are 1,141.
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Number of Avg. burden/
Respondents Number of responses/ response (in
respondents respondents hrs.)
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Mothers:
Contact Calls*--Cases....................................... 675 1 .333
Contact Calls*--Controls.................................... 250 1 .333
Scheduling Call**........................................... 500 1 .166
Telephone Interview......................................... 500 1 1.5
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* To obtain consent to participate in the study if there is no response to the letter of invitation.
** To schedule telephone interview.
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3. Defining Gulf War Illness--New--National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH)--This study will characterize and compare
alternative classifications for symptoms and functional disability
which remain medically unexplained in Gulf War veterans. This will be
accomplished in three phases. Phase I will assess persistence and
stability of symptoms over time, as well as compare the performance of
data-driven case definitions derived from two samples: (1) The New
Jersey Center for Environmental Hazards Research sample of Gulf War
veterans participating in the Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf War
Registry; and (2) a cohort of Air Force members from a previous CDC
study of Gulf War veterans and Gulf War-era controls from Pennsylvania
and Florida. In addition to assessing data-driven case definitions for
illness among Gulf War veterans, existing definitions for medically
unexplained symptoms, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple
chemical sensitivity, and fibromyalgia will be evaluated. Phase II will
attempt to assess the generalizability of both derived and existing
case definitions in a random sample of deployed and non-deployed Gulf
War era veterans. Phase III will consist of a standardized telephone
interview for the assessment of psychiatric conditions. This will be
administered to a sample of Phase I and Phase II participants who are
identified through their responses to paper-and-pencil questionnaires
as having high levels of psychologic distress. The total annual burden
hours are 4,761.
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Number of Avg. burden/
Respondents Number of responses/ response (in
respondents respondent hrs.)
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Initial Address Confirmation.................................... 50 1 .0333
Introductory Script............................................. 7,000 1 .05
Main Questionnaire.............................................. 5,361 1 .75
Mail Survey..................................................... 387 1 .05
Refusal Conversion.............................................. 150 1 .0333
Address Confirmation............................................ 200 1 .0333
Third-Party Contact............................................. 25 1 .0333
Recontact Script................................................ 25 1 .0333
Follow-up Letter................................................ 500 1 .083
Follow-up Care.................................................. 804 1 .10
Request for Medical Records (letter)............................ 1,340 1 .05
Request for Medical Records Follow-up Call...................... 750 1 .0333
Medical Care Providers:
Request for Medical Records (letter)........................ 140 1 1
Request for Medical Records Follow-up Call.................. 42 1 0.0333
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Dated: May 24, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-13739 Filed 5-28-99; 8:45 am]
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