Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Women's Health and Aging StudyTelephone Follow-up

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Women's Health and

Aging Study--Telephone Follow-up

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the

National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve the

information collection listed below. A notice regarding this proposed

information collection was previously published in the Federal Register

on August 20, 1996, page 43064. The notice allowed 60 days for public

comment. No public comments were received. The purpose of this notice

is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The NIH may not

conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to,

an information collection

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that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1,

1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

PROPOSED COLLECTION: Title: Women's Health and Aging Study--Telephone

Follow-up. Type of Information Collection Request: Revision. Need and

Use of Information Collection: This proposed study is designed to

obtain additional data on women (previously examined in the Women's

Health and Aging Study, OMB No. 0925-0376, expiration 8/31/97) through

telephone interviews with participants or their proxies 1 and 2 years

after their final in-home contacts. The Women's Health and Aging Study

(WHAS) is a community-based prospective epidemiologic study whose goal

is to study the causes and course of physical disability in the one-

third most disabled women living in the community. The main objective

of this additional data collection is to obtain information on

disability and nursing home admission that will serve as end points in

5-year prospective analyses. This information will be a valuable

addition to outcome data on death and hospital admissions that will be

obtained through linkage with the National Death Index and the Health

Care Financing Administration Medicare data base for this same period

of time. The variables collected in the follow-up telephone assessments

will provide important endpoints for a great many analyses that address

the primary goal of the study, evaluating factors related to the

progression of disability and need for long-term care. Frequency of

Response: Once a year. Affected Public: Individuals or households. Type

of Respondents: Women age 68 and older. Estimated Number of

Respondents: 690; Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2;

Average Burden Hours Per Response: .33; Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours Requested: 326. The annualized cost to respondents is estimated

at: $7,500. There are no Capital Costs to report. There are no

Operating or Maintenance Costs to report.

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Written comments and/or suggestions from the

public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the

following points: (1) whether the proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of the function of the agency,

including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the

accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed

collection of information, including the validity of the methodology

and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize

the burden of the collection of information on those who are to

respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,

mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms

of information technology.

DIRECT COMMENTS TO OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding

the item(s) contained in this notice especially regarding the estimated

public burden and associated response time, should be directed to the:

Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 20503,

Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on the

proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and

instruments, contact: Dr. Jack Guralnik, Chief Epidemiology and

Demography Office, Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry Program, NIA,

NIH, Gateway Building, Room 3C309, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue MSC 9205,

Bethesda, MD 20892-9205, or call non-toll-free number (301) 496-1178 or

E-mail your request, including your address to: .

COMMENTS DUE DATE: Comments regarding this information collection are

best assured of having their full effect if received on or before

January 16, 1997.

Colleen Barros,

Executive Office, NIA.

[FR Doc. 96-31882 Filed 12-16-96; 8:45 am]

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