[Federal Register: October 3, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 192)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-77-03]

 
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 498-1210. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax 
to (202) 395-6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: 2004 Methodological Study of the Youth Risk 
Behavior Survey (YRBS)--New--National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

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Background

    CDC intends to conduct a methodological study of the Youth Risk 
Behavior Survey in the Spring of 2004 to assess the effects of setting 
and mode of survey administration on the reporting of health-risk 
behaviors among adolescents. This study will provide methodological 
guidance for future surveys, especially surveys of adolescents. In 
2000, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation 
(ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), commissioned 
five expert papers written on the topic ``Examining Substance Abuse 
Data Collection Methodologies.'' The papers focused on the Youth Risk 
Behavior Survey (YRBS), the National Survey on Drug Use and Health 
(NSDUH, formerly the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, or 
NHSDA), and Monitoring the Future (MTF). A consensus among the authors 
was that disparate results across the studies are most likely a product 
of methodological differences across the surveys. The 2004 
Methodological Study of the YRBS is designed to measure the extent to 
which the prevalence of health-risk behaviors among students varies by 
whether the survey is administered in schools versus students' homes 
(setting), and by whether the survey is administered using paper and 
pencil questionnaire booklets versus computer assisted self 
interviewing (mode).
    Approximately 5,480 high school students will be given 
questionnaires in one of the four setting/mode combinations. 
Elucidation of the impact of these factors on prevalence will assist in 
reducing response effects and improving the quality of the YRBS data. 
The total estimated annualized burden for this data collection is 4,110 
hours.

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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                           Respondents                               Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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High school students--paper & pencil, school-based questionnaire           1,344               1           45/60
High school students--paper & pencil, home-based questionnaire..           1,344               1           45/60
High school students--CASI, school based questionnaire..........           1,344               1           45/60
High school students--CASI, home based questionnaire............           1,344               1           45/60
School administrators recruitment...............................             104               1           45/60
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    Dated: September 29, 2003.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-25085 Filed 10-2-03; 8:45 am]

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