[Federal Register: October 12, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 196)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-04-0455X]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
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) 498-1210 or send an email to
omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human Resources
and Housing Branch, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,
Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Written comments
should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Learning from Principal Investigators of Research Projects Funded
through the Extramural Prevention Research Program: How Can CDC Best
Support Participatory Research and the Dissemination and Translation of
Research Findings? -- 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 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 by CDC 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.
The approximate annualized burden is 36 hours.
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Number of Average burden/
Respondents Number of responses/ response (in
respondents respondent hrs.)
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Principal Investigators funded through the first round of the 30 1 45/60
EPRP who self-report that they used a participatory research
approach.......................................................
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Principal Investigators funded through the first round of the 26 1 30/60
EPRP who self-report that they did not use a participatory
research approach..............................................
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Dated: October 4, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-22819 Filed 10-8-04; 8:45 am]
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