Notice2024-07009
Agency Information Collection Activities Title: Assessing the Use of Coaching To Promote Positive Caregiver-Child Interactions in Home Visiting
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Published
April 3, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23026-23028]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07009]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities 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 Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than May 3,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c5b5a4b5a0b7b2aab7ae85adb7b6a4eba2aab3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3747564752454058455c775f45445619505841">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Assessing the Use of Coaching
to Promote Positive Caregiver-Child
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Interactions in Home Visiting OMB No. 0906-xxxx[NEW].
Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
(MIECHV) Program, authorized by 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, which 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) 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.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on December 5,
2023, vol. 88, No. 232; pp. 84342-43. There were no public comments.
One home visiting model developer requested copies of the information
collection instruments.
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 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 collected information to provide evidence-informed
resources and strategies that MIECHV awardees can use to inform their
use of coaching strategies to strengthen their 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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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 Learning Cycle Form 40 9 360 0.17 61.2
(Installation & Refinement
Phases)........................
Family Post-Visit Form 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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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-07009 Filed 4-2-24; 8:45 am]
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