Notice2022-22863
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Healthy Start Evaluation and Quality Improvement; OMB No. 0915-0338-Revision
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October 21, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
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In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 203 (Friday, October 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64065-64066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22863]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Healthy
Start Evaluation and Quality Improvement; OMB No. 0915-0338--Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 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 ICR should be received no later than December
20, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#542435243126233b263f143c2627357a333b22"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a2a3b2a3f282d3528311a3228293b743d352c">[email protected]</span></a> or by mail to the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#92e2f3e2f7e0e5fde0f9d2fae0e1f3bcf5fde4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d8a8b9a8bdaaafb7aab398b0aaabb9f6bfb7ae">[email protected]</span></a> or call Samantha Miller,
the acting HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-
9094.
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, authorized by 42
U.S.C. 254c-8 (section 330H of the Public Health Service Act), and
funded through HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), has the
goal to improve health outcomes before, during, and after pregnancy,
and reduce racial/ethnic differences in rates of infant death and
adverse perinatal outcomes. The program began as a demonstration
project with 15 grantees in 1991 and has expanded since then to 101
grantees across 35 states; Puerto Rico; 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 often low-income and
located in geographically, racially, ethnically, and linguistically
diverse areas. Healthy Start offers services during the perinatal
period (before, during, after pregnancy) and the program works with
women, men, and infants/children through the first 18 months after
birth. The Healthy Start program pursues four goals: (1) improve
women's health, (2) improve family health and wellness, (3) promote
systems change, and (4) assure impact and effectiveness. Over the past
few years, MCHB has sought to implement a uniform set of data elements
for monitoring and conducting an evaluation to assess grantees'
progress towards these program goals. Under the current OMB approval,
the data collection instruments for the program's reporting
requirements include three participant-level screening tools: (1)
Background, (2) Prenatal, and (3) Parenting Information.
In this proposed revision, MCHB plans to retain the participant-
level tools as approved by OMB in 2020; however, MCHB did introduce
minor changes to the forms. These changes included only the following:
correction of typos, addition of response options (e.g., ``don't
know,'' ``declined to answer''), and clarification of instructions. The
purpose of these minor changes is to improve the quality of the
instruments and make it easier for the respondents to complete the
forms. The improved instructions should reduce confusion in completing
the forms. Adding additional response options will eliminate forced
responses that do not represent the participant's intent and will
increase response accuracy.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of the
revised data collection instruments will be to assess grantee and
participant-level progress towards meeting Healthy Start
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program performance measures. The data will be used to conduct ongoing
performance monitoring of the program, thus meeting program needs for
accountability, programmatic decision-making, and ongoing quality
assurance.
Likely Respondents: For the General Background, Prenatal, and
Parenting Information participant-level forms, respondents include
pregnant women, women of reproductive age, and men 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 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 ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours:
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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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General Background Form......... *45,700 1 45,700 .30 13,710
Prenatal........................ *30,300 1 30,300 .10 3,030
Parenting....................... *30,300 1 30,300 .25 7,575
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Total....................... 106,300 .............. 106,300 .............. 24,315
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*All adult participants (45,700) complete the General Background form, and a subset of these same individuals
(30,300) also complete the Prenatal or Parenting forms for total of 106,300 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 and utility 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.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2022-22863 Filed 10-20-22; 8:45 am]
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