[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 13, 2015)]

[Notices]

[Pages 27316-27318]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [http://www.gpo.gov/]

[FR Doc No: 2015-11512]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-15-15AGK; Docket No. CDC-2015-0032]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 

Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, Department of 

Health and Human Services, HHS.

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 

of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the 

utility of government information, invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a new information 

collection request entitled, ``Understanding Barriers and Facilitators 

to HIV prevention for Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)'' to conduct 

qualitative research with most at risk HIV-negative MSM. The research 

is intended to understand issues surrounding HIV risk for MSM, identify 

influences of high risk behaviors and to investigate risk management 

and resiliency among HIV-negative MSM.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 13, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-

0032 by any of the following methods:

 Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments.

 Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road 

NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.

 Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 

and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 

without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 

provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 

comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

 Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the 

Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 

address listed above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 

and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MSD74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 

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Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 

proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 

information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 

collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To 

comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 

proposed data collection as described below.

 Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c)

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ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) 

estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 

means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 

persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 

to or for a Federal agency. 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.

Proposed Project

 Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to HIV prevention for Men 

Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) (Pulse Study)--New--National Center for 

HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

 The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB 

Prevention (NCHHSTP)/Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) is 

requesting approval for one year of a data collection entitled, 

``Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to HIV prevention for Men Who 

Have Sex with Men (MSM).'' The purpose of this study is to conduct 

primarily qualitative research with most at risk HIV-negative MSM. 

There are four goals to this study: (1) Understand issues surrounding 

HIV risk for MSM; (2) learn more about how gay community or peer norms, 

and community identification influence risk behaviors; (3) understand 

individual HIV risk management, such as having an HIV-positive partner 

with suppressed viral load, barriers and facilitators for use of 

biomedical interventions (i.e., pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), nonoccupational post-exposure prophylaxis (nPEP); and (4) understand 

factors that promote resiliency among HIV-negative MSM.

 The present research will be conducted in the top five Southern 

metropolitan areas in the United States with the highest HIV diagnoses 

for MSM--Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; Miami, Florida; and 

New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. These cities rank among those 

in the South with the highest prevalence and incidence of HIV and 

sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among black/African American and 

Hispanic/Latino MSM.

 The study population will consist of black/African-American and 

Hispanic/Latino (1) male adolescents who are attracted to men and 

report they are HIV negative or have not been tested and (2) adult MSM 

who are recently tested and verified as HIV-negative.

 All study participants will be 13 years of age or older. 

Participants will be recruited in the selected cities through referrals 

from Health Departments, clinics and other HIV testing centers. In 

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addition, we will recruit via word-of-mouth referrals or flyers given 

out by community-based, advocacy, faith-based, and service-providing 

agencies.

 Primarily, we will use a qualitative research design and will 

include a brief quantitative survey to reduce participant burden where 

possible (for example, when we do not need to know an in-depth answer 

for socio-demographics, HIV testing history, housing status, health 

insurance status). The first portion of the interview instrument 

consists of brief structured questions to characterize the respondents. 

The second portion of the instrument consists of open-ended in-depth 

qualitative questions. This research design was chosen based on the 

exploratory nature of our study purpose.

 All data collection tools will be pre-tested and interviews 

conducted by trained personnel. The data collection will take place at 

a time and place that is convenient to the respondent. Locations will 

be private. Data collection may be audio-recorded and transcribed with 

the consent of the respondent.

 We anticipate that consent forms and screener forms to take five 

minutes to complete each. We anticipate 50 percent of HIV-negative MSM 

screened will be eligible for the study. The brief structured survey 

(15 minutes) and in-depth interview (45 minutes) for HIV-negative MSM 

are expected to take a total of 60 minutes (1 hour) total. We will 

complete interviews for 105 black/African-American and 45 Hispanic/

Latino HIV-negative MSM at greatest risk for HIV in high prevalence 

cities in the U.S. South. We anticipate screening 300 potential 

respondents. The total number of burden hours are 192.

 Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

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 Number of Average burden

 Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden

 respondents respondent (in hours) hours

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General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 210 1 5/60 18

 Screener--Engli

 sh.

General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 90 1 5/60 8

 Screener--Spani

 sh.

General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 105 1 1/60 2

 Contact

 Information

 Form--English.

General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 45 1 1/60 1

 Contact

 Information

 Form--Spanish.

General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 95 1 5/60 8

 Consent Form--

 English.

General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 35 1 5/60 3

 Consent Form--

 Spanish.

General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 10 1 3/60 1

 Assent for

 Minors Form--

 English.

General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 10 1 3/60 1

 Assent for

 Minors Form--

 Spanish.

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General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative MSM 105 1 1 105

 In-Depth

 Interview

 Guide--English.

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General Public--Adults........ HIV-negative In- 45 1 1 45

 Depth Interview

 Guide--Spanish.

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 Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 192

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Leroy A. Richardson,

Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 

Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[FR Doc. 2015-11512 Filed 5-12-15; 8:45 am]

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