[Federal Register: August 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 169)]
[Notice]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Proposed Data Collection; Comment Request; National Physician
Survey of Practices on Diet, Physical Activity, and Weight Control
SUMMARY: Under the provision of section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
National Cancer Institute (NCI), has submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the
information collection listed below. This proposed information
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on June 28,
2007, page 43609 and allowed 60-days for public comment. One public
comment was received asking about the possibility of doing studies of
autism rather than the proposed survey. The comment was out of the
scope of this current project. The purpose of this notice is to allow
an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of
Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required
to respond to, an information collection that has been extended,
revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number.
Proposed Collection
Title: Physician Survey of Practices on Diet, Physical Activity,
and Weight Control.
Type of Information Collection Request: NEW.
Need and Use of Information Collection: This study will obtain
current, national data on primary care physicians' knowledge,
attitudes, and practices related to diet, physical activity, and weight
control. Obesity, poor diet, and lack of physical activity are becoming
recognized as major public health problems in the United States, and
have been linked to increased risk, adverse prognosis, and poor quality
of life for cancer and many other chronic diseases. The data collected
in this study will support and further NCI work in monitoring and
evaluating providers' cancer prevention knowledge, attitudes, and
practices and their impact on pupulation health, as well as enable
monitoring of progress toward major cancer control goals. Data from the
survey will be used to profile existing physician practice, understand
barriers to counseling and referral, and to inform methods for
improving the utilization of these services for adults and children.
Two questionnaires, one sent to physicians and one sent to their
practice administrators, will be administered by mail or telephone to a
randomly-selected national sample of 2,000 physicians belonging to
primary care specialties. Study participants will be 2,000 practicing
physicians who are family practitioners, general internists,
pediatricians, and obstetrician/gynecologists and 2,000 practice
administrators.
The annual reporting burden is as follows: Estimated Number of
Respondents: 4,000; Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1;
Average Burden Hours Per Response: .333; and Estimated Total Annual
Burden Hours, Requested: 1,332. The annualized cost to respondents is
estimated at: $65,048. There are no Capital Costs to report. There are
no Operating or Maintenance Costs to report.
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Estimated
Estimated number Average Estimated
Type of respondent number responses per burden hours total annual
respondents respondent per response burden hours
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Physician....................................... 2,000 1 0.333 666
Medical Practice Administrator.................. 2,000 1 0.333 666
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Total....................................... 4,000 1 .............. 1,332
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* Hourly earnings data are taken from the National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States,
June 2005, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the
following points: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Send comments to Ashley Wilder Smith,
Ph.D., M.P.H., Health Sciences Specialist, National Cancer Institute,
6130 Executive Blvd., MSC 7344, Executive Plaza North, Room 4090,
Bethesda, MD 20892-7344. Telephone: 301-451-1843; E-mail:
smithas@mail.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days
of the date of
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this publication should be received by September 26, 2007.
Dated: August 21, 2007.
Ashley Wilder Smith,
National Cancer Institute Task Order Monitor, National Institutes of
Health.
[FR Doc. 07-4270 Filed 8-30-07; 8:45 am]
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