83 FR 63510 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 236 (December 10, 2018)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 236 (December 10, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 236 (Monday, December 10, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 63510-63512] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-26635] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [60Day-19-17BBV; Docket No. CDC-2018-0106] Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACTION: Notice with comment period. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comments on a proposed information collection project titled ``Online training for law enforcement to reduce risks associated with shift work and long work hours''. This study will develop and pilot test a new, online, interactive training program tailored for the law enforcement community that relays the health and safety risks associated with [[Page 63511]] shift work, long work hours, and related workplace sleep issues, and presents strategies for managers and officers to reduce these risks. DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before February 8, 2019. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018- 0106 by any of the following methods:Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329. Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket Number. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments to Regulations.gov. Please note: Submit all comments through the Federal eRulemaking portal (regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the address listed above. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, contact Jeffery M. Zirger, Information Collection Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information collection before submitting the collection to the OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a proposed data collection as described below. The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help: 1. 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; 2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; 3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 4. 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 submissions of responses. 5. Assess information collection costs. Proposed Project Online training for law enforcement to reduce risks associated with shift work and long work hours--New--National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description Police often work during the evening, at night, and sometimes irregular and long hours. Shift work and long work hours are linked to many health and safety risks due to disturbances to sleep and circadian rhythms. These work schedules also lead to difficulties with personal relationships due to having less time with family and friends, poor mood from sleep deprivation, and problems balancing work and personal responsibilities. These work schedules and inadequate sleep likely contribute to health problems seen in police: Shorter life spans, high occupational injury rates, and burden of chronic illnesses. One strategy to reduce these risks is training programs to inform employers and law enforcement officers about the risks and strategies to reduce their risks. This is a New Information Collection Request for one-year of data collection. This pilot study is part of a project awarded National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) funding. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is authorized to carry out this data collection through Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. The purpose of this project is to develop a training program to relay the risks linked to shift work and long work hours and give workplace strategies for employers and personal strategies for the officers to reduce the risks. Once finalized, the training will be available on the NIOSH website. The training will be pilot tested with 30 recent graduates of a police academy and 30 experienced officers. The study will recruit 60 law enforcement officers during a 30-minute phone call. All respondents will work full-time on fixed night shifts. The pilot test will use a pre-test--post-test design to examine sleep (both duration and quality), worktime sleepiness, and knowledge retained. Pre-test measures will be collected two weeks before the training. Post-test measures will be collected the week of the training (week three of the study), one week after the training (week four) and at eight and nine weeks after the training (weeks 11 and 12 of the study). Additional post-test measures will include feedback about the training and if specific behaviors changed. Before starting the pretest, the respondent will sign an informed consent form. The pilot pre-test will start with the respondent filling out a 10 minute online survey that includes four short surveys: (1) Demographic information and work experience; (2) the Epworth Sleepiness Scale; (3) the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; and (4) a knowledge test. The respondent will be fitted with a wrist actigraph, which will record activity and estimate the times of sleep. The respondents will keep an online sleep activity diary and wear the actigraph continuously during weeks one to four of the study. The online sleep activity diary takes approximately two minutes a day to complete. The sleep diary and actigraph are being used together to obtain a more accurate timing of respondent's sleep and activity. During the third week of the study, the respondent will take the 2.5 hour online training program. Immediately after completing the training, the respondent will take the post-test knowledge test and will provide feedback about the training including barriers to using the training information and what influential people in their life would want them to do with the training information. At the end of week four, the respondent will return the actigraph. No data collection will occur during weeks five to 10 of the study. The second post-test period will be weeks 11 and 12 of the study to gather longer-term outcomes. At the beginning of week 11, the respondents will be fitted with an actigraph. The respondent will wear the actigraph and complete the sleep activity diary for the next 14 days. At the end of week 12 of the study, the respondent will complete the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and Changes in Behaviors After Training. The combined response time is five minutes. The burden table lists three 10-minute meetings during the post- test period when they will return the actigraph at the end of week four, be fitted with an [[Page 63512]] actigraph at the beginning of week 11 and return it at the end of week 12. The respondents will complete the sleep activity diary for 42 days total (two minutes each day). The total burden hours for the diary is 84. Study staff will use the findings from the pilot test to make improvements to the training program. The research team will reinforce or expand training content that showed less than desired results on the pilot test. Potential impacts of this project include improvements in management practices such as the design of work schedules and improvements in officers' personal behaviors for coping with the demands of shift work and long work hours. The total estimated annualized burden hours is 334. There are no costs to respondents other than their time. Estimated Annualized Burden Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Number of Number of burden per Total burden Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hours) respondent hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Law enforcement officers...... Phone call for 60 1 30/60 30 recruitment & informed consent. Law enforcement officers...... Initial meeting. 60 1 15/60 15 Law enforcement officers...... Knowledge survey 60 2 5/60 10 Law enforcement officers...... Epworth 60 2 1/60 2 Sleepiness Scale. Law enforcement officers...... Pittsburgh Sleep 60 2 2/60 4 Quality Index. Law enforcement officers...... Demographics and 60 1 2/60 2 work experience. Law enforcement officers...... Sleep diary..... 60 42 2/60 84 Law enforcement officers...... Online training. 60 1 150/60 150 Law enforcement officers...... Feedback about 60 1 5/60 5 Training, Barriers, and Influential People. Law enforcement officers...... Changes in 60 1 2/60 2 Behaviors after Training. Law enforcement officers...... Actigraph 60 3 10/60 30 fitting and return. --------------------------------------------------------------- Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 334 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffery M. Zirger, Acting Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. 2018-26635 Filed 12-7-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163-18-P
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91–596), the mission of NIOSH is to social, and organizational factors that injured?’’), and behavioral economic
conduct research and investigations on affect employers’ decisions to adopt fall- discounting assessments. For the
occupational safety and health. This prevention solutions. This project will behavioral economic questions in the
project will focus on understanding the combine traditional surveys with survey, participants will be asked to
decision-making processes of small behavioral economic methodologies to make choices about hypothetical, but
wholesale and small retail businesses in understand the decision-making realistic, scenarios that assess the
regards to the adoption of fall- processes related to the adoption of fall- influence of several factors on the
prevention solutions. Slips, trips, and prevention solutions. By using patterns of decision-making. To date, no
falls are major sources of workplace behavioral economic principles and study has quantitatively assessed the
injury across all industry sectors and methods, this study will pose safety-related decision-making
represent a significant burden. In the hypothetical, but realistic, scenarios to processes of small business employers
wholesale and retail trade sectors, slips, small business employers to assess the from a behavioral economic perspective.
trips, and falls account for 25% of all influence of several factors on the Previous studies in this area consist of
reported injuries. By definition, small patterns of decisions. One of the goals qualitative studies of some factors that
businesses employ fewer numbers of of the study is to assess the subjective affect occupational safety and health of
people, therefore a slip, trip, or fall value of fall-prevention solutions based small businesses. This study will
resulting in an injury is less likely to on their costs and effort required to use address a knowledge gap in the
occur in any given establishment. Small them. To quantify the subjective value professional and scientific literature by
business employers may underestimate of fall-prevention solutions, this project contributing quantitative data to a
the risks associated with occupational will use the behavioral economic problem that has been overlooked. The
slips, trips, and falls because they have principles to assess the trade-offs small results for this study are meant for
not experienced them and therefore do business owners make among the cost of theory development and are not
not take the necessary steps to prevent fall prevention solutions, the amount of intended to be nationally representative.
them. effort require to assemble them, and the The sample size for this survey will
One of the best ways to prevent and amount of time they take to assemble. be 100 small business employers in the
control occupational injuries, illnesses, One of the behavioral economic wholesale or retail trade sectors. This
and fatalities is to ‘‘design out’’ or principles is discounting, in which the sample size is based on a power analysis
minimize hazards and risks. NIOSH’s value of a product or outcome decreases which indicated that 100 respondents
Prevention Through Design Initiative as the cost, effort, or delay associated would be sufficient to detect any
focuses on this concept through the with it increases. For example, small- correlations between the organizational
inclusion of prevention considerations business owners may ‘‘discount’’ the or demographic variables and the
in all designs that impact workers. value of a fall-prevention solution if it behavioral economic measures of
Although employers’ decisions can lead requires great effort to assemble, decision making. Each web-based
to the successful implementation of The survey will include instruments survey will take approximately 30
Prevention Through Design, fall- to obtain demographic information (age, minutes to complete, resulting in an
prevention solutions are not well gender, income, etc.), organizational annualized burden estimate of 50 hours.
understood. More information is needed safety information (e.g., ‘‘Has someone There is no cost to respondents other
to better understand the motivational, at your place of work ever been than their time.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of Total
Type of Number of burden per
Form name responses per burden
respondents respondents response
respondent (in hours)
(in hours)
Small business employers ................ Survey .............................................. 100 1 30/60 50
Total ........................................... 50
Jeffrey M. Zirger, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND its continuing effort to reduce public
Acting Lead, Information Collection Review HUMAN SERVICES burden and maximize the utility of
Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office government information, invites the
of Science, Centers for Disease Control and Centers for Disease Control and general public and other Federal
Prevention. Prevention agencies the opportunity to comment on
[FR Doc. 2018–26636 Filed 12–7–18; 8:45 am] [60Day–19–17BBV; Docket No. CDC–2018– a proposed and/or continuing
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 0106] information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Proposed Data Collection Submitted This notice invites comments on a
for Public Comment and proposed information collection project
Recommendations titled ‘‘Online training for law
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and enforcement to reduce risks associated
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health with shift work and long work hours’’.
and Human Services (HHS). This study will develop and pilot test a
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
new, online, interactive training
program tailored for the law
SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease enforcement community that relays the
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of health and safety risks associated with
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actigraph at the beginning of week 11 the training program. The research team and improvements in officers’ personal
and return it at the end of week 12. The will reinforce or expand training behaviors for coping with the demands
respondents will complete the sleep content that showed less than desired of shift work and long work hours. The
activity diary for 42 days total (two results on the pilot test. Potential total estimated annualized burden hours
minutes each day). The total burden impacts of this project include is 334. There are no costs to respondents
hours for the diary is 84. improvements in management practices other than their time.
Study staff will use the findings from such as the design of work schedules
the pilot test to make improvements to
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of Total
Number of burden per
Type of respondents Form name responses per burden
respondents response
respondent (in hours)
(in hours)
Law enforcement officers .................. Phone call for recruitment & in- 60 1 30/60 30
formed consent.
Law enforcement officers .................. Initial meeting ................................... 60 1 15/60 15
Law enforcement officers .................. Knowledge survey ............................ 60 2 5/60 10
Law enforcement officers .................. Epworth Sleepiness Scale ............... 60 2 1/60 2
Law enforcement officers .................. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ........ 60 2 2/60 4
Law enforcement officers .................. Demographics and work experience 60 1 2/60 2
Law enforcement officers .................. Sleep diary ....................................... 60 42 2/60 84
Law enforcement officers .................. Online training .................................. 60 1 150/60 150
Law enforcement officers .................. Feedback about Training, Barriers, 60 1 5/60 5
and Influential People.
Law enforcement officers .................. Changes in Behaviors after Training 60 1 2/60 2
Law enforcement officers .................. Actigraph fitting and return ............... 60 3 10/60 30
Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 334
Jeffery M. Zirger, CDC will accept all comments for this Officer, Office of Management and
Acting Lead, Information Collection Review proposed information collection project. Budget, 725 17th Street NW,
Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office The Office of Management and Budget Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202)
of Science, Centers for Disease Control and is particularly interested in comments 395–5806. Provide written comments
Prevention. that: within 30 days of notice publication.
[FR Doc. 2018–26635 Filed 12–7–18; 8:45 am] (a) Evaluate whether the proposed
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P collection of information is necessary Proposed Project
for the proper performance of the Identification of Behavioral and
functions of the agency, including Clinical Predictors of Early HIV
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND whether the information will have Infection (Project DETECT) (OMB No.
HUMAN SERVICES practical utility; 0920–1100, Exp. 2/28/2019)—
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the Extension—National Center for HIV/
Centers for Disease Control and agencies estimate of the burden of the AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention proposed collection of information, Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for
[30Day–19–1100]
including the validity of the Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
methodology and assumptions used;
Background and Brief Description
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
Reduction Act Review clarity of the information to be CDC requests a three-year OMB
collected; approval to continue information
In accordance with the Paperwork (d) Minimize the burden of the collection for ‘‘Project DETECT,’’ an
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for collection of information on those who ongoing research study conducted by
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are to respond, including, through the the University of Washington (UW).
has submitted the information use of appropriate automated, Study sites initiated information
collection request titled ‘‘Identification electronic, mechanical, or other collection in 2016 and CDC is
of Behavioral and Clinical Predictors of technological collection techniques or requesting OMB approval for three
Early HIV Infection (Project DETECT)’’ other forms of information technology, additional years (2019–2022). The study
to the Office of Management and Budget e.g., permitting electronic submission of is designed to (1) identify behavioral
(OMB) for review and approval. CDC responses; and and clinical predictors of early HIV
previously published a ‘‘Proposed Data (e) Assess information collection infection, and (2) characterize the
Collection Submitted for Public costs. performance of new HIV tests for
Comment and Recommendations’’ To request additional information on detecting established and early HIV
notice on August 21, 2018 to obtain the proposed project or to obtain a copy infection at the point of care (POC),
comments from the public and affected of the information collection plan and relative to each other and to currently
agencies. CDC received one (1) comment instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or used gold standard, non-POC tests.
related to the previous notice. This send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct The primary study population is
notice serves to allow an additional 30 written comments and/or suggestions persons at high risk for, or diagnosed
days for public and affected agency regarding the items contained in this with HIV infection, many of whom will
comments. notice to the Attention: CDC Desk be men who have sex with men (MSM)
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| Contact | To request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, contact Jeffery M. Zirger, Information Collection Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected] | |
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