Notice2023-26586
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Assessing the Use of Informal Contacts To Promote Caregivers' Engagement and Satisfaction With Home Visiting
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Published
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 84343-84345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-26586]
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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 Informal Contacts To Promote Caregivers' Engagement and
Satisfaction With 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#1d6d7c6d786f6a726f765d756f6e7c337a726b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="057564756077726a776e456d7776642b626a73">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
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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#f58594859087829a879eb59d878694db929a83"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d7a7b6a7b2a5a0b8a5bc97bfa5a4b6f9b0b8a1">[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 Informal
Contacts to Promote Caregivers' Engagement and Satisfaction with Home
Visiting OMB No. 0915-xxxx--[New].
Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program, authorized by Social Security Act, title V, section
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 informal contacts.
Informal contacts are any contacts between a home visitor and family
that occur between formal home visits (e.g., text messages, emails).
The purpose of this information collection is to better understand,
through rapid cycle learning, how MIECHV-funded home visiting programs
can use informal contacts to improve service delivery and promote
caregiver's engagement and satisfaction.
Information will be collected in four phases designed to (1)
identify informal contact strategies (co-definition phase); (2) pilot
test and identify refinements to improve the implementation of
strategies (installation phase); (3) iteratively test the strategies
with refinements to their implementation (refinement phase); and (4)
assess the potential of informal contact 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 onset of the COVID-19
public health emergency prompted home visitors to use telephone, text,
and social media direct messaging to informally contact families on a
more frequent basis--in some instances, daily. This practice has
continued for some programs even after the end of the public health
emergency and the transition back to in-person service delivery.
Current evidence suggests considerable variation in strategies used by
home visiting programs with regards to context, type, frequency, and
purpose of informal contacts. While increasing contacts helped home
visitors to build rapport and further address family needs, other
findings suggest that informal contacts can place pressure on families
to engage with home visitors beyond what they have the capacity for and
increase the workloads of home visitors. Given these initial findings
and the increased use of informal contacts since the public health
emergency, there is a need for more information about how home visitors
contact families outside of home visits, variations in strategies, how
families perceive the strategies, and how to address challenges around
informal contacts. HRSA intends to use collected information to provide
evidence-informed resources and strategies that MIECHV awardees can use
to effectively engage and communicate with families between scheduled
home visits.
Likely Respondents: Respondents include families who receive home
visiting services and MIECHV-funded 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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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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Program Eligibility Protocol.... 16 1 16 1.00 16.0
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.50 36.0
Protocol 1 (Co-definition
Phase).........................
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.50 36.0
Protocol 2 (Co-definition
Phase).........................
Program Staff Focus Group 24 3 72 1.00 72.0
Protocol (Installation &
Refinement Phases).............
Program Staff Focus Group 24 1 24 1.00 24.0
Protocol (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).............
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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. 2023-26586 Filed 12-4-23; 8:45 am]
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