[Federal Register: June 1, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 105)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-04-55]
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 the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
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. Send comments to Dale Verell, CDC
Assistant OMB Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-E11, Atlanta, GA
30333, or through the Internet at omb@cdc.gov. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project: Evaluation of the First Round of Community-Based
and Participatory Research Funding Offered through CDC's Extramural
Prevention Research Program (formerly known as the Prevention Research
Initiative)--New--Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Two of the current priorities of CDC are to (1) substantially
increase CDC's extramural public health research portfolio and budget
and (2) develop a more client-oriented or customer-focused approach in
all of CDC's activities. As part of its strategy to strengthen and
expand extramural public health research, CDC received new money from
Congress in 1999 to establish an extramural prevention research
program. This program would focus on linking the talents and skills of
university-based scientists with the resources of health departments,
community-based programs, and
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national organizations in order to try to better respond to the health
needs of individual communities.
Through its first round, the Extramural Prevention Research Program
(EPRP), then known as the Prevention Research Initiative, provided
$12.5 million in funding annually to support 56 three-year research
projects based in states and localities throughout the country. The
topics of these research projects were as diverse as asthma, traumatic
brain injuries, tobacco control, workplace safety, and health
disparities. All of the projects were community-based, and
approximately one-third used a participatory approach in which, rather
than just having community members be subjects of the research as is
the usual case, researchers were to engage members of the community
being studied (i.e., those who were expected to be the users of the
research findings) in the research process itself. It is believed that
engaging the users in the research will make it more likely that the
research undertaken will address their actual needs and that they will
be more likely to apply the research findings.
Because of this commitment, CDC and many other federal and non-
federal funding agencies are very interested in funding participatory
research. Yet, anecdotal information and findings from an evaluation
project conducted elsewhere at CDC by one EPRP staff member have
suggested that funding programs may need to adjust their expectations,
requirements, and communication strategies if they want to attract and
adequately support the conduct of participatory research projects, and
if they want to best support the dissemination and translation into
practice of research findings. Therefore, this project will involve
conducting one-on-one, semi-structured, open-ended qualitative
interviews with the principal investigators of the grants funded in the
first round of the EPRP in order to learn how CDC can best support
community-based and participatory research, and how it can best
participate in the dissemination and translation of the studies'
findings into practice. There is no cost to respondents.
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Average
Number of Number of burden/ Total burden
Respondents respondents responses/ response (in (in hrs.)
respondent hrs.)
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Principal Investigators funded through the first 30 1 45/60 23
round of the EPRP who self-report that they
used a participatory research approach.........
Principal Investigators funded through the first 26 1 30/60 13
round of the EPRP who self-report that they did
not use a participatory research approach......
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Total....................................... 56 .............. .............. 36
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Dated: May 24, 2004.
Joseph E. Salter,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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