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The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
HIV Prevention among Latino MSM:
Evaluation of a Locally Developed
Intervention—Extension—(OMB #0920–
0942, expiration 06/30/2015), National
Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis,
STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Latinos are the largest and fastest
growing ethnic minority group in the
U.S. and have the second highest rate of
HIV/AIDS diagnoses of all racial/ethnic
groups in the country. From the
beginning of the epidemic through 2007,
Latinos accounted for 17% of all AIDS
cases reported to the CDC. Among
Latino males, male-to-male sexual
contact is the single most important
source of HIV infection, accounting for
46% of HIV infections in U.S.-born
Latino men from 2001 to 2005, and for
more than one-half of HIV infections
among South American, Cuban, and
Mexican-born Latino men in the U.S.
(CDC, 2007a; 2007b). In 2006, male-tomale sex accounted for 72% of new HIV
infections among Latino males. Relative
to other men who have sex with men
(MSM), the rate of HIV infection among
Latino MSM is twice the rate recorded
among whites (43.1 vs. 19.6 per
100,000).
Despite the high levels of infection
risk that affect Latino MSM, no
efficacious behavioral interventions to
prevent infection by HIV and other
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are
available for this vulnerable population.
CDC’s Prevention Research Synthesis
group, whose role is to identify HIV
prevention interventions that have met
rigorous criteria for demonstrating
evidence of efficacy, has not identified
any behavioral interventions for Latino
MSM that meet current efficacy criteria,
and no such interventions are listed in
CDC’s 2011 update of its Compendium
of Evidence-Based HIV Behavioral
Interventions (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/
topics/research/prs/compendiumevidence-based-interventions.htm).
There is an urgent need for
efficacious, culturally congruent HIV/
STD prevention interventions for Latino
MSM.
The purpose of this project is to test
the efficacy of an HIV prevention
intervention for reducing sexual risk
among Latino men who have sex with
men in North Carolina. The HOLA en
Grupos intervention is a Spanishlanguage, small-group, 4-session
intervention that is designed to increase
consistent and correct condom use and
HIV testing among Latino MSM and to
affect other behavioral and psychosocial
factors that can increase their
vulnerability of HIV/STD infection. This
study is using a randomized controlled
trial design to assess the efficacy of the
HOLA en Grupos intervention
compared to a general health
comparison intervention.
CDC is requesting a one-year
extension for the study in order to
collect information from 50 study
participants and terminate information
collection by the study. During the
requested extension period, a 6-month
follow-up assessment will be
administered to a total 50 study
participants. Information collection
during the extension period will make
it possible to measure intervention and
comparison participants’ sociodemographic characteristics, health
seeking actions, HIV/STD and substance
use-related risk behaviors, and
psychosocial factors six months after
they receive the HOLA en Grupos and
comparison interventions, respectively,
and to test the efficacy of the HOLA en
Grupos intervention. Collection of the 6month follow-up assessment
information will require about one hour
per study participant. The total
estimated annual burden hours are 50.
There is no cost to participants other
than their time.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondent
Form name
Number of
respondents
Number
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
respondent
(in hours)
Enrolled Study Participant ..............................
6-month follow-up assessment ......................
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Proposed Project
Improving Organizational
Management and Worker Behavior
through Worksite Communication—
New—National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To
request more information on the below
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. 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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
Background and Brief Description
NIOSH, under Public Law 91–596,
Sections 20 and 22 (Section 20–22,
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1977) has the responsibility to conduct
research relating to innovative methods,
techniques, and approaches dealing
with occupational safety and health
problems.
This research assesses best practices
for communicating and employing a
strategic health and safety management
system (HSMS) to facilitate workers’
health and safety behaviors, including
ways that lateral communication from
management influences worker
perceptions and behaviors. Currently,
ambivalence exists about how to
strategically communicate aspects of an
HSMS top-down in the mining industry.
Research indicates that, to answer
questions about effectively using an
HSMS to improve safety, research needs
to follow a sample of workplaces over
time, measuring the introduction or
utilization of an HSMS and then
measuring outcomes of interest at the
workplace level and at the worker-level
too.
Therefore, analyzing workers’
perception of the organizational HSMS,
leaders’ implementation of the
organizational HSMS, and
communication gaps between these two
entities, may provide more insight into
the best, most feasible practices and
approaches to worker H&S performance
within a system. This project is
initiating such an approach by
implementing a series of multilevel
intervention (MLI) case studies that
assess the utility of a safety system that
includes aspects of both safety
management on the organizational level
and behavior-based safety on the worker
level. By studying these levels
separately and introducing an
intervention to bridge these two groups
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together to enhance safety, the
communication practices within an
HSMS may be enhanced.
NIOSH requests OMB approval for a
3-year for a project that involves
information collection and that seeks to
empirically understand what HSMS
communication practices are important
for mine worker H&S and how those
practices can be developed,
implemented, and maintained over time
via desired communication from mine
site leadership. The following questions
guide this study:
What impact does the MLI
communication model that was
designed and implemented have on: (1)
Workers’ health/safety behaviors,
including those that lower exposure to
dust; (2) workers’ perceptions of their
organizations’ values; and (3) changes in
managers’ strategic HSMS
communication and implementation
with workers to facilitate health/safety
performance, including those that lower
exposure to dust.
To answer the above questions,
NIOSH researchers developed a
multilevel intervention (MLI) that
focuses on both management and
workers’ communication about and
subsequent actions taken to reduce
respirable dust exposure over time. This
MLI will inform how leadership
communicates to their employees and
what affect(s) this communication has
on individual behavior such as
corrective dust actions taken by
workers. By assessing the ongoing
safety/health interactions between
individual workers and their
organizational capacities (i.e. levels of
leadership and management of safety),
and how these interactions influence
and shape personal H&S performance,
we can better understand what aspects
of both systems need attention in a
merged, more balanced and
comprehensive system of health and
safety management (DeJoy, 2005).
Specifically, this project is using mine
technology, the Helmet-CAM, as a
communication medium to help merge
these two worksite systems. Previous
research indicates that the use of
information technology can enhance
lateral and horizontal communication
within organizations, showing support
for using the Helmet-CAM in the current
study (Hinds & Kiesler, 1995). NIOSH
researchers can analyze what and how
communication practices should be
implemented to influence worker
perceptions of their organizations’ H&S
values and how this impacts their
subsequent H&S behavior. Eventually,
the practices used to influence behavior
related to this dust issue can be
extrapolated to inform ways to
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-15-0942]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted
the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for the proposed
information collection is published to obtain comments from the public
and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected
agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are
encouraged. Your comments should address any of the following: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used; (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; (d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses; and
(e) Assess information collection costs.
To request additional information on the proposed project or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written comments and/or
suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice should be
directed to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
HIV Prevention among Latino MSM: Evaluation of a Locally Developed
Intervention--Extension--(OMB #0920-0942, expiration 06/30/2015),
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group
in the U.S. and have the second highest rate of HIV/AIDS diagnoses of
all racial/ethnic groups in the country. From the beginning of the
epidemic through 2007, Latinos accounted for 17% of all AIDS cases
reported to the CDC. Among Latino males, male-to-male sexual contact is
the single most important source of HIV infection, accounting for 46%
of HIV infections in U.S.-born Latino men from 2001 to 2005, and for
more than one-half of HIV infections among South American, Cuban, and
Mexican-born Latino men in the U.S. (CDC, 2007a; 2007b). In 2006, male-
to-male sex accounted for 72% of new HIV infections among Latino males.
Relative to other men who have sex with men (MSM), the rate of HIV
infection among Latino MSM is twice the rate recorded among whites
(43.1 vs. 19.6 per 100,000).
Despite the high levels of infection risk that affect Latino MSM,
no efficacious behavioral interventions to prevent infection by HIV and
other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are available for this
vulnerable population. CDC's Prevention Research Synthesis group, whose
role is to identify HIV prevention interventions that have met rigorous
criteria for demonstrating evidence of efficacy, has not identified any
behavioral interventions for Latino MSM that meet current efficacy
criteria, and no such interventions are listed in CDC's 2011 update of
its Compendium of Evidence-Based HIV Behavioral Interventions (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/research/prs/compendium-evidence-based-interventions.htm).
There is an urgent need for efficacious, culturally congruent HIV/
STD prevention interventions for Latino MSM.
The purpose of this project is to test the efficacy of an HIV
prevention intervention for reducing sexual risk among Latino men who
have sex with men in North Carolina. The HOLA en Grupos intervention is
a Spanish-language, small-group, 4-session intervention that is
designed to increase consistent and correct condom use and HIV testing
among Latino MSM and to affect other behavioral and psychosocial
factors that can increase their vulnerability of HIV/STD infection.
This study is using a randomized controlled trial design to assess the
efficacy of the HOLA en Grupos intervention compared to a general
health comparison intervention.
CDC is requesting a one-year extension for the study in order to
collect information from 50 study participants and terminate
information collection by the study. During the requested extension
period, a 6-month follow-up assessment will be administered to a total
50 study participants. Information collection during the extension
period will make it possible to measure intervention and comparison
participants' socio-demographic characteristics, health seeking
actions, HIV/STD and substance use-related risk behaviors, and
psychosocial factors six months after they receive the HOLA en Grupos
and comparison interventions, respectively, and to test the efficacy of
the HOLA en Grupos intervention. Collection of the 6-month follow-up
assessment information will require about one hour per study
participant. The total estimated annual burden hours are 50.
There is no cost to participants other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per respondent
respondents respondent (in hours)
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Enrolled Study Participant.......... 6-month follow-up 50 1 1
assessment.
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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