Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Assessing Strategies To Promote Children's Engagement and Active Participation in Virtual Visits
| Published date | 03 April 2024 |
| Record Number | 2024-07066 |
| Citation | 89 FR 23023 |
| Court | Health Resources And Services Administration |
| Section | Notices |
Federal Register, Volume 89 Issue 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 2024)
[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23023-23024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07066]
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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
Strategies To Promote Children's Engagement and Active Participation in
Virtual Visits
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 www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 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 [email protected] or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Assessing Strategies to
Promote Children's Engagement and Active Participation in Virtual Home
Visits 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, 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 strategies home visitors use to
engage children and promote their active engagement during virtual
visits. The purpose of this information collection is to better
understand, through rapid cycle learning, how MIECHV-funded home
visiting programs can implement virtual strategies improve child
engagement and how home visitors can apply these strategies during in-
person service delivery.
Information will be collected in four phases designed to (1)
identify virtual child engagement 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 these child engagement strategies to improve
service delivery and promote family engagement and family satisfaction
with home visiting programs in both virtual and in-person settings
(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, 88 FR 84340-41. There were no public comments. One home visiting
model developer requested copies of the information collection forms.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: With the end of the
COVID-19 public health emergency, most MIECHV-funded home visiting
programs have transitioned back to some level of in-person service
delivery. However, many continue to offer occasional virtual home
visits if warranted and appropriate, such as during inclement weather
or due to family and staff health concerns. Understanding the virtual
strategies that home visitors used or are using to address the
challenges of engaging children during virtual home visits, how these
strategies can be implemented, how these strategies and learned lessons
can be applied to in-person settings, and how children and families
respond to these strategies will be valuable to the field. HRSA intends
to use collected information to share evidence-informed resources and
strategies that MIECHV awardees can use to optimize children's
engagement and active participation and strengthen their home visiting
services.
Likely Respondents: Respondents include (1) families who receive
home visiting services and (2) 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
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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).............
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. 2024-07066 Filed 4-2-24; 8:45 am]
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