81_FR_41436 81 FR 41314 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request

81 FR 41314 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 122 (June 24, 2016)

Page Range41314-41315
FR Document2016-14958

In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 122 (Friday, June 24, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 122 (Friday, June 24, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41314-41315]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-14958]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) announces plans to submit an Information 
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks 
comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any 
other aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received 
no later than August 23, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N-39, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Healthy Start Evaluation and 
Quality Improvement OMB No. 0915-0338--Revision.
    Abstract: The National Healthy Start Program, funded through HRSA's 
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), has the goal of reducing 
disparities in infant mortality and adverse perinatal outcomes. The 
program began as a demonstration project with 15 grantees in 1991 and 
has expanded over the past 2 decades to 100 grantees across 37 states 
and Washington, DC. Healthy Start grantees operate in communities with 
rates of infant mortality at least 1.5 times the U.S. national average 
and high rates for other adverse perinatal outcomes. These communities 
are geographically, racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse 
low-income areas. Healthy Start covers services during the perinatal 
period (before, during, after pregnancy) and follows the woman and 
infant through 2 years after the end of the pregnancy. The Healthy 
Start program has five approaches, including: (1) Improving women's 
health; (2) promoting quality services; (3) strengthening family 
resilience; (4) achieving collective impact; and (5) increasing 
accountability through quality assurance, performance monitoring, and 
evaluation.
    MCHB seeks to implement a uniform set of data elements for 
monitoring and conducting a mixed-methods evaluation to assess the 
effectiveness of the program on individual, organizational, and 
community-level outcomes. Data collection instruments will include a 
National Healthy Start Program Survey; Community Action Network Survey; 
Healthy Start Site Visit Protocol; Healthy Start Participant Focus 
Group Protocol--these instruments have not been changed. The 
Preconception, Pregnancy and Parenting (3Ps) Information Form will also 
be used as a data collection instrument; however the 3Ps Information 
form has been redesigned from one form into six forms. The six forms 
include: (1) Demographic Intake Form; (2) Pregnancy Status/History; (3) 
Preconception; (4) Prenatal; (5) Postpartum; and (6) Interconception/
Parenting. The purpose of this redesign is to enhance the 3Ps 
Information Form to ensure collected data is meaningful for monitoring 
and evaluation, as well as screening and care coordination, and 
streamline previously separate data systems. The 3Ps Information Form 
was also redesigned to allow questions to be administered in accordance 
with the participant's enrollment/service delivery status and perinatal 
period. In addition to redesigning the 3Ps Information Form, HRSA 
deleted questions that are neither critical for evaluation nor 
programmatic purposes. HRSA also added questions to the 3Ps Information 
Form to allow the Form to be used as an all-inclusive data collection 
instrument for MCHB and Healthy Start grantees. The additional 
questions extend and refine previously approved content, allowing for 
the collection of more granular and/or in-depth information on existing 
topics. Adding these questions allows Healthy Start grantees to better 
assess risk, identify needed services, provide appropriate follow-up 
activities to program participants, and improve overall service 
delivery and quality.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of the data 
collection instruments is to obtain consistent information across all 
grantees about Healthy Start and its

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outcomes. The data will be used to: (1) Conduct ongoing performance 
monitoring of the program; (2) provide credible and rigorous evidence 
of program effect on outcomes; (3) assess the relative contribution of 
the five program approaches to individual and community-level outcomes; 
(4) meet program needs for accountability, programmatic decision-
making, and ongoing quality assurance; and (5) strengthen the evidence-
base, and identify best and promising practices for the program to 
support sustainability, replication, and dissemination of the program.
    Likely Respondents: Respondents include project directors and staff 
for the National Healthy Start Program Survey; representatives from 
partner organizations for the Community Action Network Survey; program 
staff, providers, and partners for the Healthy Start Site Visit 
Protocol; and program participants for the Healthy Start Participant 
Focus Group Protocol. Respondents for the redesigned 3Ps Information 
Form (i.e., (1) Demographic Intake; (2) Pregnancy Status/History; (3) 
Preconception; (4) Prenatal; (5) Postpartum; and (6) Interconception/
Parenting) is pregnant women and women of reproductive age who are 
served by the Healthy Start program.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. 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 
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. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
    Total Estimated Annualized burden hours:

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                                                                                      Average
                                     Number of       Number of         Total        burden per     Total burden
            Form name               respondents    responses per     responses     response  (in       hours
                                                    respondent                        hours)
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3Ps Information Form:...........        * 40,675               1          40,675            0.25          10,169
1. Demographic Intake Form......
2. Pregnancy Status/History.....          40,675               1          40,675            0.42          17,084
3. Preconception................        * 20,337               1          20,337             1.5          30,506
4. Prenatal.....................          20,337               1          20,337            2.00          40,674
5. Postpartum...................          20,337               1          20,337             1.8          37,285
6. Interconception/Parenting....          20,337               1          20,337            2.00          40,674
National Healthy Start Program                88               1              88            2.00             176
 Web Survey.....................
CAN member Web Survey...........             225               1             225            0.75             169
Healthy Start Site Visit                      15               1              15            6.00              90
 Protocol.......................
Healthy Start Participant Focus              180               1             180            1.00             180
 Group Protocol.................
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    Total.......................          61,520  ..............          61,520  ..............         177,007
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* The same individuals (40,675) complete the Demographic Intake and Pregnancy Status/History forms, and a subset
  of these same individuals (20,337) also complete the Preconception, Prenatal, Postpartum, and Interconception/
  Parenting forms for total of 61,520 respondents and responses.

    HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and 
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper 
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to 
minimize the information collection burden.

Jason E. Bennett,
Director, Division of Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2016-14958 Filed 6-23-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4165-15-P

41314 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 122 / Friday, June 24, 2016 / Notices information. The total annual burden Collection Request are summarized in Total Estimated Annualized burden hours estimated for this Information the table below. hours: Average Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden Form name responses per respondents responses response hours respondent (in hours) Site Survey ........................................................................... 305 1 305 0.5 152.5 Medical Records Sample Selection Guide .......................... 25 1 25 1 25 Site Interview Guide ............................................................. 50 1 50 2 100 Focus Groups Guide ............................................................ 60 1 60 1.5 90 Total .............................................................................. 440 ........................ 440 ........................ 367.5 HRSA specifically requests comments Officer, Room 14N–39, 5600 Fishers program on individual, organizational, on (1) the necessity and practical utility Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. and community-level outcomes. Data of the proposed information collection FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To collection instruments will include a for the proper performance of the request more information on the National Healthy Start Program Survey; agency’s functions; (2) the accuracy of proposed project or to obtain a copy of Community Action Network Survey; the agency’s estimate of the burden of the data collection plans and draft Healthy Start Site Visit Protocol; the proposed collection of information; instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov Healthy Start Participant Focus Group (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, or call the HRSA Information Collection Protocol—these instruments have not and clarity of the information to be Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984. been changed. The Preconception, collected; and (4) the use of automated Pregnancy and Parenting (3Ps) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When collection techniques or other forms of Information Form will also be used as submitting comments or requesting information technology to minimize the a data collection instrument; however information, please include the information collection burden. the 3Ps Information form has been information request collection title for redesigned from one form into six Jason E. Bennett, reference. forms. The six forms include: (1) Director, Division of Executive Secretariat. Information Collection Request Title: Demographic Intake Form; (2) [FR Doc. 2016–14951 Filed 6–23–16; 8:45 am] Healthy Start Evaluation and Quality Pregnancy Status/History; (3) BILLING CODE 4165–15–P Improvement OMB No. 0915–0338— Preconception; (4) Prenatal; (5) Revision. Postpartum; and (6) Interconception/ Abstract: The National Healthy Start Parenting. The purpose of this redesign DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Program, funded through HRSA’s is to enhance the 3Ps Information Form HUMAN SERVICES Maternal and Child Health Bureau to ensure collected data is meaningful (MCHB), has the goal of reducing for monitoring and evaluation, as well Health Resources and Services disparities in infant mortality and Administration as screening and care coordination, and adverse perinatal outcomes. The streamline previously separate data program began as a demonstration systems. The 3Ps Information Form was Agency Information Collection project with 15 grantees in 1991 and has also redesigned to allow questions to be Activities: Proposed Collection: Public expanded over the past 2 decades to 100 administered in accordance with the Comment Request grantees across 37 states and participant’s enrollment/service AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Washington, DC. Healthy Start grantees delivery status and perinatal period. In Administration, HHS. operate in communities with rates of addition to redesigning the 3Ps ACTION: Notice. infant mortality at least 1.5 times the Information Form, HRSA deleted U.S. national average and high rates for questions that are neither critical for SUMMARY: In compliance with the other adverse perinatal outcomes. These evaluation nor programmatic purposes. requirement for opportunity for public communities are geographically, HRSA also added questions to the 3Ps comment on proposed data collection racially, ethnically, and linguistically Information Form to allow the Form to projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the diverse low-income areas. Healthy Start be used as an all-inclusive data Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the covers services during the perinatal collection instrument for MCHB and Health Resources and Services period (before, during, after pregnancy) Healthy Start grantees. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 122 / Friday, June 24, 2016 / Notices 41315 outcomes. The data will be used to: (1) Survey; representatives from partner requested. This includes the time Conduct ongoing performance organizations for the Community Action needed to review instructions; to monitoring of the program; (2) provide Network Survey; program staff, develop, acquire, install and utilize credible and rigorous evidence of providers, and partners for the Healthy technology and systems for the purpose program effect on outcomes; (3) assess Start Site Visit Protocol; and program of collecting, validating and verifying the relative contribution of the five participants for the Healthy Start information, processing and program approaches to individual and Participant Focus Group Protocol. maintaining information, and disclosing community-level outcomes; (4) meet Respondents for the redesigned 3Ps and providing information; to train program needs for accountability, Information Form (i.e., (1) Demographic personnel and to be able to respond to programmatic decision-making, and Intake; (2) Pregnancy Status/History; (3) a collection of information; to search ongoing quality assurance; and (5) Preconception; (4) Prenatal; (5) data sources; to complete and review strengthen the evidence-base, and Postpartum; and (6) Interconception/ the collection of information; and to identify best and promising practices for Parenting) is pregnant women and transmit or otherwise disclose the the program to support sustainability, women of reproductive age who are information. The total annual burden replication, and dissemination of the served by the Healthy Start program. hours estimated for this Information program. Burden Statement: Burden in this Collection Request are summarized in Likely Respondents: Respondents context means the time expended by the table below. include project directors and staff for persons to generate, maintain, retain, Total Estimated Annualized burden the National Healthy Start Program disclose or provide the information hours: Average Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden Form name responses per respondents responses response hours respondent (in hours) 3Ps Information Form: ......................................................... 1. Demographic Intake Form ............................................... * 40,675 1 40,675 0.25 10,169 2. Pregnancy Status/History ................................................ 40,675 1 40,675 0.42 17,084 3. Preconception .................................................................. * 20,337 1 20,337 1.5 30,506 4. Prenatal ............................................................................ 20,337 1 20,337 2.00 40,674 5. Postpartum ....................................................................... 20,337 1 20,337 1.8 37,285 6. Interconception/Parenting ................................................ 20,337 1 20,337 2.00 40,674 National Healthy Start Program Web Survey ...................... 88 1 88 2.00 176 CAN member Web Survey .................................................. 225 1 225 0.75 169 Healthy Start Site Visit Protocol .......................................... 15 1 15 6.00 90 Healthy Start Participant Focus Group Protocol ................. 180 1 180 1.00 180 Total .............................................................................. 61,520 ........................ 61,520 ........................ 177,007 * The same individuals (40,675) complete the Demographic Intake and Pregnancy Status/History forms, and a subset of these same individuals (20,337) also complete the Preconception, Prenatal, Postpartum, and Interconception/Parenting forms for total of 61,520 respondents and responses. HRSA specifically requests comments DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND estimate, below, or any other aspect of on (1) the necessity and utility of the HUMAN SERVICES the ICR. proposed information collection for the DATES: Comments on this ICR must be proper performance of the agency’s Health Resources and Services received no later than August 23, 2016. functions, (2) the accuracy of the Administration ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA the quality, utility, and clarity of the Agency Information Collection Information Collection Clearance information to be collected, and (4) the Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Officer, Room 14N–39, 5600 Fishers use of automated collection techniques Comment Request Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. or other forms of information FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To AGENCY:Health Resources and Services technology to minimize the information Administration, HHS. request more information on the collection burden. proposed project or to obtain a copy of ACTION: Notice. the data collection plans and draft Jason E. 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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesComments on this Information Collection Request must be received no later than August 23, 2016.
ContactTo request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, email [email protected] or call the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.
FR Citation81 FR 41314 
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