Notice2023-26581
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Assessing the Use of Coaching To Promote Positive Caregiver-Child Interactions in Home Visiting
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December 5, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
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 88, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 5, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84342-84343]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-26581]
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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: Assessing
the Use of Coaching To Promote Positive Caregiver-Child Interactions in
Home Visiting
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 February
5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#deaebfaebbaca9b1acb59eb6acadbff0b9b1a8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f787968792858098859cb79f858496d9909881">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 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#285849584d5a5f475a4368405a5b49064f475e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="522233223720253d2039123a2021337c353d24">[email protected]</span></a> or call Joella Roland, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Assessing the Use of Coaching
to Promote Positive Caregiver-Child Interactions in Home Visiting OMB
No. 0906-xxxx--[New]
Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program, authorized by the Social Security Act, title V, Sec.
511 (42 U.S.C. 711) and administered by HRSA in partnership with the
Administration for Children and Families, supports voluntary, evidence-
based home visiting services during pregnancy and for parents with
young children up to kindergarten entry. States, tribal entities, and
certain nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive funding from
the MIECHV Program and have the flexibility to tailor the program to
serve the specific needs of their communities. Funding recipients may
subaward grant funds to local implementing agencies to provide home
visiting services to eligible families in at-risk communities.
This information collection is part of the Assessing and Describing
Practice Transitions Among Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs in
Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Study. This study aims
to identify and study practices implemented in response to the COVID-19
public health emergency that support evidence-based practice and have
the potential to enhance home visiting programming. One of the
practices the study identified is the use of coaching to promote
caregiver-child interactions and positive caregiving skills. Coaching
involves a home visitor providing instructions to the parent or
caregiver as they carry out the skill and differs from a common home
visiting strategy modeling in which home visitors first demonstrate a
skill themselves before asking the parent or caregiver to try it. The
purpose of this information collection is to better understand, through
rapid cycle learning, how MIECHV-funded home visiting programs can
implement coaching strategies during home visits.
Information will be collected in four phases designed to (1) define
coaching strategies (co-definition phase); (2)
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identify potential refinements to improve coaching strategies
(installation phase); (3) iteratively test the refinements (refinement
phase); and (4) assess the potential of coaching strategies to improve
service delivery and promote family engagement and family satisfaction
with home visiting programs (summary phase). Data collection activities
include focus groups, online questionnaires, and review of documents
and administrative data.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The COVID-19 public
health emergency led the MIECHV Program to rapidly adjust practices,
within the bounds of evidence-based home visiting model guidance, to
reduce service delivery disruptions while protecting the health and
safety of home visiting participants and the home visiting workforce.
Largely prompted by the shift to virtual home visits, one of these
practice changes was to use coaching to promote positive caregiving
skills and family-child interactions. Home visitors suggested that
using coaching strategies enhanced the way that home visitors worked
with families, particularly in virtual settings when home visitors were
unable to use modeling strategies (e.g., in-person demonstrations by
home visitors). Some findings indicate that home visitors who used
coaching perceived that it led to improved family engagement and
caregiver confidence in interacting with their child. However, other
findings suggest that some families may not prefer coaching over
modeling and that coaching may create a burden on home visitors. As
home visitors transition back to primarily in-person home visits, there
is a need for more information about strategies to support the
implementation of coaching to effectively promote positive caregiver-
child interactions in virtual and in-person settings, while reducing
home visitor burden and increasing family acceptance of this strategy.
HRSA intends to use the information collected to provide evidence-
informed resources and strategies that MIECHV awardees can use to
inform their use of coaching strategies to strengthen home visiting
services.
Likely Respondents: Respondents include families who receive home
visiting services and MIECHV-funded home visiting program staff, which
may include program directors, managers, supervisors, and home
visitors.
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 ICR 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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Program Eligibility Protocol....... 16 1 16 1.00 16.0
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 24 1 24 1.50 36.0
1 (Co-definition Phase)...........
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 24 1 24 1.50 36.0
2 (Co-definition Phase)...........
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 24 3 72 1.00 72.0
(Installation & Refinement Phases)
Program Staff Focus Group Protocol 24 1 24 1.00 24.0
(Summary Phase)...................
Family Focus Group Protocol (Co- 48 1 48 1.00 48.0
definition & Summary Phases)......
Home Visitor Questionnaire 40 9 360 0.17 61.2
(Installation & Refinement Phases)
Family Post-Visit Questionnaire 48 6 288 0.08 23.0
(Refinement Phase)................
Focus Group Participant 120 1 120 0.08 9.6
Characteristics Form (All Phases).
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Total.......................... 368 .............. 976 .............. 325.8
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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.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-26581 Filed 12-4-23; 8:45 am]
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