[Federal Register: December 10, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 236)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) Demonstration and
Evaluation Project: 12-month Follow-up and Implementation Research Data
Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, is conducting a demonstration and
evaluation called the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) project. SHM is
a test of marriage education demonstration programs in eight separate
locations that will aim to enroll up to 1,000 couples per location, up
to 500 couples participating in SHM programs and 500 control group
couples.
SHM is designed to inform program operators and policymakers of the
most effective ways to help low-income married couples strengthen and
maintain healthy marriages. In particular, the project will measure the
effectiveness of marriage education programs by randomly assigning
eligible volunteer couples to SHM program groups and control groups.
This data collection request includes three components. First, a
survey will be administered to couples 12 months after they are
enrolled in the program. The survey is designed to assess the effects
of the SHM program on marital status and stability, quality of
relationship with spouse, marital expectations and ideals, marital
satisfaction, participation in services, parenting outcomes, child
outcomes, parental well-being, employment, income, material hardship,
and social support characteristics of study participants assigned to
both the program and control groups. Second, survey data will be
complemented by videotaped observations of couple, co-parenting, and
parent-child interactions with a subset of intact and separated couples
at the 12-month follow-up. Third, qualitative data will be collected
through a process and implementation study in each of the eight SHM
demonstration programs across the country.
These data will complement the information gathered by the SHM
baseline data collection (OMB Control No. 0970-0299). The information
collected at the 12-month follow-up will allow the research team to
examine the effects of SHM services on outcomes of interest and to
identify mechanisms that might account for these effects. The process
and implementation research will consist of a qualitative component
that will help ACF to better understand the results from the impact
analysis as well as how to replicate programs that prove to be
successful.
Respondents: Low-income married couples with children.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average burden Estimated
Instrument Annual number responses per hours per annual burden
of respondents respondent response hours
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12-month survey................................ 10,240 1 0.83 8,499.2
12-month observational study (intact couples).. 3,200 1 0.68 2,176
12-month observational study (separated 160 1 0.17 27.2
couples)......................................
12-month observational study (children of 1,600 1 0.33 528
intact couples)...............................
12-month observational study (children of 160 1 0.17 27.2
separated couples)............................
The process and implementation field research 504 1 1 504
guide.........................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,761.6.
Additional Information
Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and Families, Office of Administration,
Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW.,
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. All requests
should be identified by the title of the information collection. E-mail
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comment
OMB is required to make a decision concerning the collection of
information between 30 and 60 days after publication of this document
in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best assured of having
its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202-395-6974,
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.
Dated: November 29, 2007.
Brendan C. Kelly,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-5978 Filed 12-7-07; 8:45 am]
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