[Federal Register: August 1, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 148)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-03-102]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer on (404)498-1210.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 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; and (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. Send comments to Anne O'Connor, CDC
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24,
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days
of this notice.
Proposed Project: Data Collection and Analysis to Determine the
Reliability and Validity of Current and Proposed Oral Health Questions,
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System--New--National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Division of Oral Health, proposes to support data collection
and analysis to determine the reliability and validity of current and
proposed Oral Health questions for the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS). At the request of the Association of State
and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD), the Division of Oral Health
(DOH) provided technical assistance in standardization of questions to
monitor the oral health of adults. Three questions appeared on the
BRFSS core in 1999, and were included again in 2002; They permit state
dental programs to track progress toward Healthy People
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(HP) objectives for adults (HP 2010: 21-3, 21-4, 21-10), to monitor
reported use of a key preventive service for adults (teeth cleaning),
and to examine the relationship of oral health indicators to general
health status, conditions, and behaviors.
As more state dental programs consider the oral health of adults,
states have requested that a bank of additional standardized questions
be created to monitor other oral health indicators. CDC/DOH has been
reluctant to provide additional technical assistance, without firm data
on the reliability and validity of questions. Because all BRFSS
questions require self-report by respondents about their own oral
health status or behaviors, recall bias and errors in perception exist.
To accomplish estimates of response error, answers to existing and
proposed BRFSS questions (limit = 10 content questions, plus 7
demographic questions) must be compared to the ``True'' situation of
that individual, i.e., that is found in patient charts or other
clinical records.
The proposed data collection and analysis will be conducted through
the Alliance of Community Health Plans by research foundations
affiliated with two dental plans, Kaiser Permanente Northwest,
Portland, OR and Health Partners, Minneapolis, MN. The proposed
telephone survey, similar to BRFSS, of a convenience sample of 400
dental plan members (200 from each respective HMO) would occur only
once. Neither published studies nor informal discussions with dental
researchers regarding work in progress uncovered any information that
would eliminate the need for this data collection. All work on this
project, including linkages between health plan records and responses
to the BRFSS questions, will be conducted at the research foundations
associated with the respective health plans. CDC will receive only a
report on the validity of the questions, and will not have access to
the database constructed for the contract.
Study findings will allow CDC to respond to state requests for
inclusion of additional standardized questions in an optional oral
health module for BRFSS and ensure that any such questions are
reliable, valid, and useful for state program planning and evaluation.
There is no cost to respondents.
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Number of Average burden/
Health plan respondents Number of responses/ response (in Total burden
respondents respondent hours) (in hours)
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Kaiser Northwest................................ 200 1 15/60 50
Health Partners................................. 200 1 15/60 50
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 100
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Dated: July 28, 2002.
Thomas A. Bartenfeld,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-19580 Filed 7-31-03; 8:45 am]
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