[Federal Register: October 14, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 198)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-03-00]

 
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) 639-7090. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    1. An Evaluation of Targeted Health Communication Messages: Folic 
Acid and Neural Tube Defects--NEW--National Center for Environmental 
Health (NCEH). The Division of Birth Defects and Pediatric Genetics, 
National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, launched a national 
education campaign in January 1999 to increase women's knowledge about 
neural tube birth defects (NTDs) and the beneficial role folic acid, a 
B vitamin, plays in the prevention of NTDs. Studies show that a 50 to 
70 percent reduction in the risk of neural tube birth defects is 
possible if all women capable of becoming pregnant consume 400 
micrograms of folic acid daily both prior to and during early 
pregnancy.
    CDC and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation developed 
health communication media messages and educational materials targeted 
to health care providers, as well as to English and Spanish-speaking 
women. These media messages and educational materials consist of 
television and radio public service announcements (PSA), brochures and 
resource manuals.
    Information about women's exposure to media messages and 
educational materials on folic acid information will be collected and 
measured to determine whether these exposures influenced the women's 
knowledge and usage of folic acid. Data will be collected via telephone 
interviews. The number and frequency of women's exposures to the media 
messages such as television and radio PSAs will be collected from media 
channels and compared to information collected from survey data, 
National Council on Folic Acid organizations and the National 
Clearinghouse on Folic Acid activities. The total annual burden hours 
are 534.

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                                                                                   Number of     Average burden/
                         Respondents                              Number of        responses/     response  (in
                                                                 respondents       respondent         hours)
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Targeted Market for the Folic Acid Messages..................           2,000                1              .33
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Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-26786 Filed 10-13-99; 8:45 am]
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