[Federal Register: November 25, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 227)]
[Notices]
[Page 70601-70602]
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-03-14]
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 Community-based Intervention Model to Promote
Neighborhood Participation in the Reduction of Aedes aegypti Larval
Indices in Puerto Rico--New--National Center for Infectious Diseases
(NCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Aedes
aegypti mosquito transmits dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease of
the tropics. The symptoms of dengue disease include fever, headache,
rash, retro-orbital pain, myalgias, arthralgias, nausea or vomiting,
abdominal pain, and hemorrhagic manifestations.
Since there is no vaccine available to prevent dengue, prevention
efforts are directed to control the vector mosquito. The limited
efficacy of insecticides in preventing disease transmission has
prompted the search for new approaches involving community
participation.
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Research in Puerto Rico, where dengue is endemic and intermittently
epidemic, has shown that levels of awareness about dengue are very high
in the population and that the next step should be the translation of
this knowledge into practice (behavior change). To achieve this goal a
model of community participation to prevent and control dengue should
be developed. This model of community participation must be an
effectively implemented prevention project.
The objective of the dengue prevention project is to develop and
evaluate a community-based participation intervention model that will
reduce Aedes aegypti infestation in a community in Puerto Rico. To
accomplish this two comparable communities in the San Juan, Puerto Rico
area will be selected for this study. One community will be a ``control
community'' and the second community will be an ``intervened
community.'' Entomologic surveys and person-to-person interviews to
assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) will be conducted
during the project in both communities. The entomologic surveys and
person-to-person interviews will be conducted 3 times during the
project: the beginning of the project, the end of the first year of the
project, and 18 months after the beginning of the project.
An additional interview will also be conducted in the intervened
community to assess the function and significance of artificial
containers that hold water. An ethnographic assessment will be
performed to determine the resources and needs of the intervened
community. The specific dengue prevention activities that the
intervened community will perform will be based on results of the
initial entomologic survey, KAP, function and significance of
artificial containers, and the ethnographic assessment of the
community. There is no cost to respondents.
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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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Intervened Community............................ 100 4 45/60 300
Control Community............................... 100 3 45/60 225
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Total........................................... .............. .............. .............. 525
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Dated: November 15, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-29803 Filed 11-22-02; 8:45 am]
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