[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 37 (Thursday, February 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8724-8725]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-3825]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-5806.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
A Controlled Evaluation of Expect Respect Support Groups (ERSG):
Preventing and Interrupting Teen Dating Violence among At-Risk Middle
and High School Students--New--National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC), Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The prevalence and consequences of teen dating violence make it a
public health concern that requires early and effective prevention. To
date, only three prevention strategies--Safe Dates, the Youth
Relationships Project, and 4th R--have demonstrated reductions in
dating violence behaviors in rigorous, controlled evaluations, and only
one of these (Safe Dates) has effectively prevented sexual violence. In
order to protect young people and build the evidence for effective
prevention strategies, evaluations of additional programs are needed,
including those programs currently in the field. Expect Respect Support
Groups (provided by Safe Place) are currently in use in the Austin
Independent School District and demonstrates promising results in an
uncontrolled program evaluation, which strongly suggests a controlled
evaluation is warranted to more rigorously examine program effects.
The proposed study has two primary goals and two exploratory aims.
The primary goals are: (1) To evaluate the effectiveness of Expect
Respect Support Groups (ERSG) in preventing and reducing teen dating
violence and (2) Comparing whether there is increased healthy conflict
resolution skills reported by at-risk male and female middle and high
school students supported by ERSG, compared to at-risk students in
control schools who do not receive ERSG.
The exploratory aims are: (1) To evaluate whether or not the
effectiveness of ERSG is enhanced by the presence of universal, school-
wide prevention programs, and (2) To examine whether participants with
different characteristics respond differently to the intervention. For
example, we will determine whether outcome for boys or girls are the
same.
The proposed evaluation will use a quasi-experimental/non-
randomized design in which a convenience sample of participants in
schools receiving universal and/or targeted prevention services are
compared to students in control schools in which no dating violence
prevention services are available. Based on past experience with an
uncontrolled program evaluation of Expect Respect Support groups, we
anticipate that in the Austin Independent School District, 800 students
will undergo an Intake Assessment. From that number, 600 respondents
from the intervention and control groups will be eligible for the
Baseline Survey, and from that number, 400 will complete the Completion
Survey.
Therefore, over three years we will recruit 1800 students (300 per
year from intervention schools and 300 per year from control schools),
of whom we anticipate 1200 will have complete data.
Control schools will be selected that have characteristics (e.g.,
risk status, socio-economic status) similar to the Austin Independent
School District intervention schools.
There is no cost to respondents. The total estimated annual burden
hours are 2000.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average
Number of responses burden per
Type of respondent Form name respondents per response
respondent (in hours)
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Control Schools (School districts Intake assessment............ 400 1 15/60
surrounding Austin Independent School
District).
Baseline Survey.............. 300 1 1
Completion Survey............ 200 1 1
Follow-up Survey 1........... 200 1 1
Follow-up Survey 2........... 200 1 1
Intervention Schools (Austin Independent Intake assessment............ 400 1 15/60
School District).
Baseline Survey.............. 300 1 1
Completion Survey............ 200 1 1
Follow-up Survey 1........... 200 1 1
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Follow-up Survey 2........... 200 1 1
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Dated: February 12, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-3825 Filed 2-24-10; 8:45 am]
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