HMTS Expedited Review Request

Health Message Testing System Expedited Review Form
1. Title of Study: (Please append screener and questionnaire)

Testing of Spanish-language Messages for the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP)

2. Study Population: (Discuss study population and explain how they will be selected/recruited.)

(A) Persons (Hispanics with a Spanish-language preference) at risk for developing type 2 diabetes and (B)
Family members of individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes. Participants will be recruited through a
professional recruiting firm using a Spanish-language screening instrument.
Respondent characteristics:
Number of subject: 90

Number of males:

45

Age range: 18-70

Number of females: 45

Racial/ethnic composition: Hispanic
Special group status: (e.g., risk group, health care providers)
Type of group(s): 1) Spanish-speakers at risk for developing type 2 diabetes
2) Family members of individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes
Geographic location(s): Consumers in-person: two locations, TBD
Consumers telephone: across the US
3. Incentives: (State what incentive will be offered and justify proposed incentives to be used in study.)

All participants will receive $75 in the form of a gift card as a show of appreciation for their participation.
Recruiting firms have indicated that $75 is the current standard minimum amount needed as a show of
appreciation for general audiences participation in focus groups.

4. Study method: (Please check one below)
Central location intercept interview:
Online Interview:
Telephone interview:

Focus group:
Individual in-depth interview (cognitive interview):

(CATI used: yes or no): No

Other (describe): Focus groups will be held both in-person and remotely (by telephone/Web). No individual inter

5. Purpose of the overall communication effort into which this health message(s) will fit:
(Please provide 2-3 sentences below.)

CDC's National DPP offers a proven, group-based lifestyle intervention to prevent and reduce the onset of
type 2 diabetes. CDC is working to expand the National DPP to meet the needs of the millions of
Americans at high risk for type 2 diabetes. The current effort seeks to confirm that messages previously
developed by CDC are clear, salient, appealing, and persuasive to Hispanic audiences in order to ensure
future communication efforts are successful in getting Hispanics to join lifestyle change programs.
6. Category of time sensitivity: (Please check one below)
Health emergency:
Time-limited audience access:
Press coverage correction:
Time-limited congressional/administrative mandate:
Trend Tracking
Ineffective existing materials due to historical event/social trends:
7. Describe nature of time sensitivity: (Please provide 2-3 sentences below.)
If current trends continue, as many as 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes by the year 2050. Hispanics are
among the groups with the highest diabetes burden. The goal of CDC's National DPP is for more than 15
million individuals to take part in the lifestyle intervention program by 2050. Testing messages to assure
they resonate with Hispanic audiences is imperative to program success.

8. Number of burden hours requested: 157.5

BURDEN HOURS
No. of
Participation
Respondents Time

Category of Respondent

Burden

Consumers

70

105/60

122.5

Family Members

20

105/60

35

Totals

90

9. Are you using questions from the approved question bank?

157.5

Yes

If yes, please list the item number(s) for questions used from the question bank separated by a comma.
(e.g., 1a, 3c, 130d)
N/A

*** Items below to be completed by Office of Associate Director for Communication (OADC)***
1. Number of burden hours remaining in current year's allocation: 6088
2. OADC confirmation of time-sensitivity:
Yes:
No:

Dawn B. Griffin
Project Officer
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