[Federal Register: January 8, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 5)]
[Notices]
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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
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-03-33]
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 Seleda Perryman , 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: The Second Injury Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS
2) Phase 2--New--The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)--This project
will use data from a telephone survey to measure injury-related risk
factors and guide injury prevention and control priorities including
those identified as priorities in Healthy People 2010 objectives for
the nation. Injuries are a major cause of premature death and
disability with associated economic costs of over $150 billion dollars
in lifetime costs for persons injured each year. Healthy People 2010
objectives and the recent report from the Institute of Medicine,
Reducing the Burden of Injury, call for reducing this toll. In addition
to national efforts, NCIPC funds injury control prevention programs at
the state and local levels. These programs need data both to establish
their prevention priorities and monitor their performance. The use of
outcome data (e.g., fatal injuries) for measuring program effectiveness
is problematic because cause-specific events are relatively rare and
because data on critical risk factors (e.g., was a helmet worn in a
bike crash?; was a smoke detector present at a fatal fire?) are often
missing. Because these risk factors are early in the causal chain of
injury, they are what injury control programs target to prevent
injuries. Accordingly, monitoring the level of injury risk factors in a
population can help programs set priorities and evaluate interventions.
The first Injury Control and Risk Factor Survey (ICARIS), conducted
in 1994, was a random digit dial telephone survey that collected injury
risk factor and demographic data on 5,238 English- and Spanish-speaking
adults (greater than or equal to 18 years old) in the United States.
Proxy data were collected on 3,541 children <15 years old. More than a
dozen peer-reviewed scientific reports have been published from the
ICARIS data on subjects including dog bites, bicycle helmet use,
residential smoke detector usage and fire escape practices, attitudes
toward violence, suicidal ideation and behavior, and compliance with
pediatric injury prevention counseling.
ICARIS-2, a national telephone survey about injury, which began in
the summer of 2000, has collected data on more than 8,700 of the
targeted 10,200 respondents to date. The first phase of the survey was
initiated as a means for monitoring the injury risk factor status of
the nation at the start of the millennium. The second phase of the
survey is needed to expand knowledge in areas investigators could not
fully explore, previously. By using data collected in ICARIS as a
baseline, data collected in ICARIS-2 Phase-2 will be used along with
data currently being collected (ICARIS-2 Phase-1) to measure changes
and gauge the impact of injury prevention policies. The ICARIS-2
surveys may also serve as the only readily available source of data to
measure several of the Healthy People 2010 injury prevention
objectives. In order to more fully monitor injury risk factors and
selected year Healthy People 2010 injury objectives, as well as
evaluate the effectiveness of injury prevention programs, the second
phase (ICARIS-2 Phase-2) of the current national telephone survey on
injury risk is being implemented. The only cost to the respondents is
the time involved to complete the survey.
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Number of Average burden/
Respondents Number of responses/ response (in Total burden
respondents respondent hours) (in hours)
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Adult male and female (age +18 years)........... 3,000 1 17/60 850
Total................................... 3,000 1 17/60 850
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Dated: January 2, 2003.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
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