[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43985-43986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18274]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30-Day-0920-09AU]
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Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Preventing HIV Risk Behaviors among Hispanic Adolescents--New--
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
This project involves the development and evaluation of a
streamlined version of Familias Unidas, a family-based intervention
designed to prevent drug use and unsafe sex among Hispanic adolescents.
Compared to non-Hispanic whites, Hispanic adolescents are highly
vulnerable to acquiring HIV. Hispanic adolescents between the ages of
13 and 19 are five times more likely to be infected with HIV than are
same-aged non-Hispanic whites (CDC-P, 2006). Hispanic adolescents
report higher rates of unprotected sex at last intercourse than both
non-Hispanic whites and African Americans. Compared to non-Hispanic
whites and to African Americans, Hispanic 8th and 10th graders report
the highest lifetime, annual, and 30-day prevalence rates of alcohol,
cigarette, and licit or illicit drug use. Drug use and unsafe sexual
behavior are risks for acquiring HIV.
Despite the urgent public health need to stop the progress of the
HIV epidemic and to reduce health disparities in HIV infection,
especially with regard to Hispanics, the largest and fastest growing
minority group in the nation, Familias Unidas is the only published
intervention found to be efficacious in preventing both drug use and
unsafe sexual behavior. Familias Unidas has demonstrated efficacy in an
intensive, 9 to 12 month version in two previous studies in preventing
drug use and unsafe sexual behavior relative to two attention control
conditions. Labor-intensive interventions are difficult to disseminate
to the larger community. Consequently, there is an urgent need to
develop and test a streamlined version that can be more easily
disseminated to the population. Therefore, the specific aim of the
proposed study is to evaluate a streamlined version of Familias Unidas.
Findings from this study will strengthen CDC's HIV/AIDS behavioral
intervention portfolio by creation of an effective behavioral
intervention designed specifically for Hispanic adolescents which it
currently lacks.
Approximately 400 dyads of Hispanic adolescents and their primary
caregivers (a total of 800 people), recruited through two high schools
in Miami-Dade County, will be screened for study eligibility in a short
interview lasting approximately three minutes. Based on the
investigators' prior research, approximately 240 dyads of Hispanic
adolescents and their primary caregivers (a total of 480 people) will
be deemed eligible for the study. Each of the eligible dyads will be
placed into one of two groups: (1) The streamlined 5-session
intervention and (2) a control group which receives standard HIV/AIDS
prevention information from the high schools. Adolescents and
caregivers from both groups will respond to computerized questionnaires
(ACASI) containing questions about family functioning, HIV/AIDS risk
behaviors and substance abuse, etc. Adolescents will spend
approximately 60 minutes completing the questionnaires, while their
primary caregivers will complete the questionnaires in approximately 45
minutes. They will complete these questionnaires twice annually during
the two-year period. There is no cost to the respondents other than
their time. The average annual burden is estimated to be 940 hours.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Respondents Form name respondents responses per respondent
respondent (in hours)
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Hispanic Adolescents Primary Recruitment Phone Script... 400 1 9/60
Caregivers.
Hispanic Adolescents and Primary Caregiver and Adolescent 800 1 3/60
Caregivers. Screening Form.
Primary Caregivers of Hispanic Parent Assessment Battery.. 240 2 45/60
Adolescents.
Hispanic Adolescents............... Adolescent Assessment 240 2 1
Battery.
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Dated: July 20, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-18274 Filed 7-26-10; 8:45 am]
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