[Federal Register: November 9, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 217)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30 Day-08-07AN]

 
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) 639-5960 or send an e-mail 
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974. 
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Program Effectiveness Evaluation of Workplace Intervention for 
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)--New--National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and brief description of the proposed project

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects a substantial number of 
Americans, and there has recently been increasing recognition of the 
impact it has on the workplace. In addition to direct impacts 
(batterers often stalk or even attack IPV victims at their place of 
work), IPV has indirect impacts on the workplace environment through 
lost productivity due to medical leave, absenteeism, and fear and 
distraction on the part of victims and co-workers. The Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has contracted with RTI 
International (RTI) to evaluate an ongoing workplace IPV prevention 
program being implemented at a national corporation. The purpose of the 
proposed evaluation is to document in detail the workplace IPV 
prevention activities delivered by the company, to determine the impact 
of these activities on short-term and long-term outcomes, and to 
determine the cost-effectiveness of the program. All managers at the 
corporation will be screened to assess training experiences. Then, more 
in-depth surveys will be done among managers who have not had the 
corporation's IPV training. We will survey those 500 managers at 
baseline, and 6 and 12 months later. Manager surveys will focus on 
knowledge/awareness of IPV and company resources for IPV and number of 
referrals for IPV assistance. We will also survey two waves of 
employees of those managers (N = 1500) using a web-based survey at 
baseline and 12 months later to assess their self-evaluated 
productivity, absenteeism, and perceptions of manager behavior. We will 
compare the responses of managers (and their employees) who received 
the IPV training in the study period (i.e., sometime between the 
baseline and 12 month surveys) with untrained managers. The study will 
provide CDC and employers information about the potential effectiveness 
and cost-effectiveness of workplace IPV intervention strategies.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time to 
participate in the interview. The estimated total annualized burden 
hours are 1125.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
        Type of  respondent                   Form name             respondents    responses per   response (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Manager............................  Manager Baseline and Follow-            500               3           30/60
                                      up Survey.
Employee...........................  Employee Survey............           1,500               1           15/60
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    Dated: November 2, 2007.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E7-21995 Filed 11-8-07; 8:45 am]

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