[Federal Register: November 8, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 217)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-03-13]
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: A Research Program to Develop Optimal NIOSH
Alerts in Farming (OMB No. 0920-0501)--REVISION--National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
The mission of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) is to promote ``safety and health at work for all people
through research and prevention.'' Alerts are some of the primary
publications by which NIOSH communicates health and safety
recommendations to at-risk workers. Each Alert is mailed to workers
affected by a particular health or safety hazard and contains
information about the nature of the hazard, as well as recommendations
for avoiding or controlling it. Despite the important role of Alerts in
conveying health and safety information to workers, these publications
have not been routinely pretested and evaluated for effectiveness.
Therefore, it is important to continue research that examines the
degree to which the NIOSH Alerts produce risk awareness, as well as
comprehension, acceptance and use of the recommended health and safety
measures.
The OMB-approved project, ``A Research Program to Develop Optimal
NIOSH Alerts in Farming'' (0920-0501), applied theoretical advances in
communication research to the development of NIOSH Alerts to ensure
maximal effectiveness in conveying health and safety information to
workers. This project applied psychology and communication theories to
experimentally manipulate features of the NIOSH Alerts and examine the
effects of these manipulations on the effectiveness of the Alert. To
design these theory-based Alerts, the concepts of goal attainment
imagery and risk imagery were applied. Goal attainment imagery asks the
readers to imagine themselves carrying out the safety recommendations
provided in the Alert, while risk imagery asks the readers to imagine
themselves in a high risk situation where the safety recommendations
are not followed.
Field research from the project, which applied these two types of
imagery, has shown that farmers who received an Alert containing goal
attainment imagery found the Alert easier to visualize, stronger, more
convincing and more attention getting than a standard Alert. Farmers
who received an Alert with goal attainment imagery reported heightened
perceptions of risk awareness and more positive attitudes toward
engaging in safety recommendations. In addition, they reported that
they would be more likely to pass the information on to other farmers.
No differences were found between farmers who received Alerts
containing risk imagery and farmers who received a standard Alert.
Therefore, goal attainment imagery seemed to have the strongest effect
when included in the Alerts.
The original OMB-approved protocol proposed that a national mail-
out survey would be conducted in order to test the generalizability of
the data collected in the field. Farmers would receive an experimental
(high imagery) or a standard version of an Alert along with a survey to
complete and return to NIOSH. However, based on results from similar
projects, we have learned that mail surveys generate low response
rates. We propose changing the data collection format from a mail
survey to a telephone survey. Farmers would receive an experimental
version of the Alert and then be contacted approximately two weeks
later to complete a telephone survey.
This change to the data collection format would serve three
purposes. It is expected that the response rate for the telephone
survey would be considerably higher than the response rate for the mail
survey. Also, surveying a national sample of farmers would allow us to
generalize the results to the broader population of farmers. Finally,
the distribution of the experimental Alerts is similar to the way in
which NIOSH Alerts are distributed to at risk workers and would present
an opportunity to test the effectiveness of this distribution method.
There is no cost to respondents.
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Total
Number of Number of Average burden burden
Respondent respondents responses response (in (in
respondent hours) hours)
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Farmers.............................................. 400 1 20/60 133
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Total............................................ ............... ............... ............... 133
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Dated: November 4, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-28455 Filed 11-7-02; 8:45 am]
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