This ICR is approved on the following conditions: 1) no further process studies will be conducted for this project without conducting an outcomes study; 2) given the study limitations identified, limitations will be reported along with results; and 3) results will be interpreted cautiously, particularly when reporting any theorized causal pathways.
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
12/31/2009
36 Months From Approved
228
0
0
171
0
0
0
0
0
Findings from respondents, including state tobacco control officers and quitline administrators and partners, will be used to monitor implementation of the model of the NNTCQ initiative, and effects on stakeholders and quitline capacity.
US Code:
42 USC 285a
Name of Law: National Cancer Program
The National Cancer Institute, Cancer Information Service, is requesting clearance of the proposed data collection for the following reasons:
1. NCI has extended the end date of the contract under which the process evaluation is being performed from September 28, 2006, to March 28, 2007, in order to allow sufficient time for the OMB approval process, data collection, and analysis and reporting to be carried out pursuant to the design developed in the first six months of the contract. If Emergency Clearance is granted by October 31, 2007, this will allow the necessary minimum period of two to three months to collect the survey data and two months to produce the draft and final reports. Allowing less than this minimum time could jeopardize the completeness of the data and reduce the level of detail and comprehensiveness of the report.
2. NCI is planning to launch the first federal-level promotional campaign related to the National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines in the fourth calendar quarter of 2006. While the process evaluation data collection is independent of this campaign, and is concerned with situations and events that have already occurred, there is some potential for the ongoing activities and effects of the year-long campaign to obscure or distort the focus of the various stakeholder respondents who will be responding about historical events. It is desirable to minimize as much as possible any overlap between the campaign and the process data collection.
3. In May of 2006, NCI and CDC conducted a set of regional meetings with state tobacco control managers and quitline administrators from all 51 states, meetings attended also by representatives of quitline service providers and the North American Quitline Consortium. These attendees constituted a high percentage of the actual respondents for the proposed data collection or were representatives of the respondents' organizations. NCI and CDC presented to this audience the plans for the process evaluation and its survey component; the agencies specifically utilized the opportunity to promote the value of the evaluation to these stakeholders, to explain the importance of their role in it, and to encourage them individually and organizationally to cooperate with the data collection. The agencies also informed the attendees that the surveys would occur in the end of 2006. It is desirable to adhere to this commitment and also to maintain the momentum generated by these meetings by conducting the surveys as soon as possible.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form 3 National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines Evaluation
Responses to passback questions 2006.doc
National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines Evaluation