Att 2B_60d FRN comments

Formative Research and Tool Development
OMB No. 0920-0840
Attachment 2B
Federal Register Notice Comments

Contact Information:
Constance Bonds, MPH, MPA
NCHHSTP OMB Clearance Coordinator
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention/CDC
1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E-07
Atlanta, GA 30333
404-718-8548
404-639-3250 (fax)
Akj8@cdc.gov

September 15, 2015

Burroughs, Kennya L. (CDC/00/0A DS)
From:

Jean Public

Sent:

Monday, June 29, 2015 2:41 PM
OMS-Comments (CDC); VICEPRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV;

To:
Subject:

AMERICANVOICES@MAll.HOUSE.GOV; INFO@TAXPAYER.NET; MEDIA@CAGW.ORG
Fw: PUBUC COMMENT ON FEDERAL REGISTER public wants broken down spending

plans - cdc seeks eternity for unfunded crap
Follow Up Flag:

Follow up

Flag Status:

Flagged

FIRST OF ALL, LEROY RICHARDSON PUT THE PROPOSAL ON, HAS THE PROPOSAL SAY
THAT THE PUBLIC CAN WRITE IN THROUGH REGULATIONS, AND THEN DOESNT BOTHER TO
GIVE ANY WAY TO GET TO COMMENT ON THE REGULATIONS.GOV, WEBSITE, WHICH IS
NON EXISTENT RICHARDON DIDNT TAKE CARE OF THINGS. HE SHOULD LOSE HIS BONUS
OVER SUCH STUPIDITY.

THE COSTS OF THESE VARIOUS DISEASES NEED TO BE SEPARATED SO THAT TH EPUBILC
CAN SEE WHAT EACH DISEASE IS COSTING TAXPAYERS AND HOW MCUH OF THE
POPULATIN IT AFFECTS. WE DONT WANT THESE COMBINED COSTS SO THAT YOU HIDE
SPENDING. I THINK THERE IS AN ATIEMPT BY THIS AGENCY TO HIDE AND SKEW FACTS
HERE.

I AM IN FAVOR OF A ZERO BUDGET FOR THESE PROJECTS AS CURRENTLY OUTLINED IN
THIS PROPOSAL WHICH DID NOT GET CORRECT TIME AND ATTENTION FROM THE CDC. IT
WAS SLOPPILY PUT TOGETHER. THSI AGENCY SEEMS TO SPECIALIZE IN MISFITS AND
MISFORTUNES AND PROMOTING HYSTERIA IN THE US PUBLIC WASTE IS ENDEMIC IN THIS
AGENCY THIS COMMENT IS FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD. PLEASE RECEIPT JEAN PUBLI
JEANPUBLIC1 @GMAIL.COM
ap

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 122

(Thursday,

[Notices]

June 25, 2015)]

[Pages 36540-36542 ]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office
{FR Doc No; 2015-15551]

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Oay-15-0840 ; Docket No. CDC-2015-00 46;
1

[·.-.-1.-,.~·r;

Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Papenwrk
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
extension of the ''Formative Research and Tool Development''
information collection. Project activities are designed to allow CDC's
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP) to conduct formative research information collection
activities used to inform many aspects of surveillance, communications,
health promotion, and research project development for NCHHSTP's four
priority diseases (HIV/AIDS), sexually transmitted diseases/infections
(STD/STI), viral hepatitis, tuberculosis elimination (TB), and school
and adolescent health {DASH).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-20150046 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: i\1-''.11 •• ~~+:, c.. .1 •.c. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection RevieN
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., !1S-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments r-eceived vlill be posted
without change to ''""JI,.-.t 1·,r:~··x~v, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
conunents received, go to f-_·-? •.. .t i··_-r ..•: .. j(,·.;.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal {1·;, ·r <~_,_~I : · r .- 'I ) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORt1ATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS074, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: ·,r:il i,·.: ·. 1.·. .
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 35013520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget {OMS) for each collection of information they
conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires Federal agencies
to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information, including each new proposed
collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMS for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
2

proposed data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) lfJhether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or startup costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or
[[Page 36541]]
provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to
complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
Proposed Project
Formative Research and Tool Development--E xtension--Natio nal Center
for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's, National Center
for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
requests approval for an extension and a three-year approval for its
generic information collection plan entitled ''Formative Research and
Tool Development''. Project activities are designed to allow CDC's
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP) to conduct formative research information collection
activities used to inform many aspects of surveillance, communications,
health promotion, and research project development for NCHHSTP's four
priority diseases (HIV/AIDS), sexually transmitted diseases/infect ions
(STD/STI), viral hepatitis, tuberculosis elimination (TB), and school
and adolescent health (DASH) .
Formative research is the basis for developing effective strategies
including communication channels, for influencing behavior change. It
helps researchers identify and understand the characteristics -interests, behaviors and needs--of target populations that influence
their decisions and actions. Formative research is also integral in
developing programs as 1~ell as improving existing and ongoing programs.
NCHHSTP formative research helps develop new or adapting programs that
deal with the complexity of behaviors, social context, cultural
identities, and health care that underlie the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS,
viral hepatitis, S'l'Ds, and TB in the U.S, as well as school and
adolescent health.
CDC conducts formative research to develop public-sensitiv e
communication messages and user friendly tools prior to developing or
recommending interventions, or care. Sometimes these studies are
entirely behavioral but most often they are cycles of interviews and
focus groups designed to inform the development of a product.
3

Products from these formative research studies will be used for
prevention of HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections {STI), viral
Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis. Findings from these studies may also be
presented as evidence to disease-specific National Advisory Committees,
to support revisions to recommended prevention and intervention
methods, as well as new recommendations.
Much of CDC's health communication takes place within campaigns
that have fairly lengthy planning periods--timeframes that accommodate
the standard Federal process for approving data collections. Short term
qualitative interviewing and cognitive research techniques have
previously proven invaluable in the development of scientifically valid
and population-appropriate methods, interventions, and instruments.
This request includes studies investigating the utility and
acceptability of proposed sampling and recruitment methods,
intervention contents and delivery, questionnaire domains, individual
questions, and interactions with project staff or electronic data
collection equipment. These activities will also provide information
about how respondents answer questions and ways in which question
response bias and error can be reduced.
This request also includes collection of information from public
health programs to assess needs related to initiation of a new program
activity or expansion or changes in scope or implementation of existing
program activities to adapt them to current needs. The information
collected will be used to advise programs and provide capacity~building
assistance tailored to identify needs.
Overall, these development activities are intended to provide
information that will increase the success of the surveillance or
research projects through increasing response rates and decreasing
response error, thereby decreasing future data collection burden to the
public. The studies that will be covered under this request will
include one or more of the following investigational modalities: {l)
Structured and qualitative interviewing for surveillance, research,
interventions and material development, {2) cognitive interviewing for
development of specific data collection instruments, (3) methodological
research {4) usability testing of technology-based instruments and
materials, {5) field testing of new methodologies and materials, (6)
investigation of mental models for health decision-making, to inform
health communication messages, and (7) organizational needs assessments
to support development of capacity. Respondents who Hill participate in
individual and group interviews {qualitative, cognitive, and computer
assisted development activities) are selected purposively from those
who respond to recruitment advertisements.
In addition to utilizing advertisements for recruitment,
respondents who will participate in research on survey methods may be
selected purposively or systematically from within an ongoing
surveillance or research project.
Participation of respondents is voluntary. Also, there is no cost
to participants other than their time.

Number of
Total
hours

Type of respondent
response

Form name

Number of
respondents

response

respondent

Screener . . . . . . . .

16,240

providers.
4

97,440

Average
per

burden (hrs.)

General public and health care
10/60

responses per

1

General public and health care
4,060
5/60
providers.
General public and health care
7' 920
1
providers.
General public and health care
9,600
2
providers.

48,720

l

Individual

7, 920

l

interview.
Group intervie>~.

4, 800

l

36,000

l

Consent Forms ...

[[Page 36542]]

General public and health care
18,000
30/60
providers.

Survey of
Individual.

194,880

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
55,820
..............

Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-15551 Filed 6-24-15; 8:45am]
BILLING CODE 4163-18-P

5