Modification 2 November 2006

ATTACHMENT 5

MODIFICATION 2

CHANGES APPROVED NOVEMBER 2006

June 1, 2006 PRC Information System Change (83-C) - 0920-0650

To: Thelma Sims, Office of the Director, NCCDPHP, CDC

This package is to submit changes to the Prevention Research Centers (PRC) Program Information System (IS), OMB approval number 0920-0650. We are making these changes to our IS to incorporate our revised and specific national program indicators into the IS and to refine some sections of the IS from text boxes to discrete answers. These changes will give us the quantitative data set needed for our national program indicators and evaluation activities.

Please note that with these changes, the average respondent burden hours for the Information System do not change for our system.

Listed below are the deletions, modifications, and additions to reflect these adjustments along with a description of the function for each change. The specific questions being deleted from, modified, and added to the PRC IS are attached.

DELETIONS

1. General Information (Center Information section)

Deleted: Community Description question

Function: PRC Program decided that continual collection of this information is not suited for quantitative data collection in the system.

2. Partner Information (Center Information section)

Deleted: Characterization of relationship with partner

Function: PRC Program decided that continual collection of this information is not suited for quantitative data collection in the system.

3. Health Priority (Center Information section)

Deleted: Health priority section, including data sources and documents

Function: PRC Program decided that continual collection of this information is not useful for evaluation purposes.

4. Research Agenda (Center Information section)

Deleted: Research Agenda section, including partner involvement questions

Function: PRC Program decided that continual collection of this information is not useful for evaluation purposes.

5. Center Evaluation Plan (Center Information section)

Deleted: Community Committee involvement and Evidence of Community Input

Function: PRC Program decided that continual collection of this information is not suited for quantitative data collection in the system.

6. Data Sources & Focus Areas (Projects section)

Deleted: Data Sources section

Function: PRC Program decided that continual collection of this information is not useful for evaluation purposes.

7. Partner Information (Projects section)

Deleted: Characterization of relationship with partner

Function: PRC Program decided that continual collection of this information is not suited for quantitative data collection in the system.

8. Project Outcomes and Advances (Projects section)

Deleted: Whole project outcomes and advances section.

Function: The system is being refined to capture the concepts in a more specific way through other sections and questions (see # 16, 20, and 21, below), regarding specific project outputs, research outcomes, and accomplishments.

9. General Information (Products section)

Deleted: Status of product and Date Completed

Function: PRC Program decided to only accept completed products, which will include published & in-press journal articles. The information on publication date or ‘in press’ status is already requested as part of the citation information. Therefore, these two fields are not necessary.

10. General Information (Products section)

Deleted: Product Description

Function: The system is being refined to capture the product description through more specific, quantitative questions (see # 22, below), regarding specific product focus and topic areas.

11. Content Focus (Products section)

Deleted: Group focus question

Function: The system is being refined to capture the product description through more specific, quantitative questions (see # 22, below), regarding specific product focus and topic areas.

MODIFICATION

12. Population Studied (Projects section)

Revised: Age categories

Function: The PRC Program decided that there is a need to collect data on more specific age categories, rather than large age ranges. Also allows the Program to align projects with the CDC goals across the life stages.

ADDITIONS

13. General Information (Center Information section)

Added: Students trained or mentored

Function: Allows the PRC Program to quantify the number of students trained at PRCs annually.

14. General Information (Center Information section)

Added: Physical space and staff support

Function: Allows the PRC Program to assess the support for office space and faculty or staff that the universities provide to PRCs.

15. New Grants (Center Information section)

Added: Partner/community grants section

Function: Allows the PRC Program to quantify what grants partners receive as a result of their work with the PRC, the purpose of the grant, and the PRCs’ involvement.

16. Recognition (Center Information section)

Added: Recognition section, including awards and media highlights

Function: Allows the PRC Program to quantify the awards and media highlights the PRCs receive.

17. General Information (Projects section)

Added: Research topic, intervention, and research design questions

Function: Allows the PRC Program to quantify data on what projects include interventions, and what research designs are being used across PRC projects.

18. Focus areas (Projects section)

Added: Public health topic focus areas

Function: Provides the PRC Program with critical, specific information on the public health topics addressed by each PRC project

19. Project Partner (Project section)

Added: Partner Agreement section

Function: Allows the PRC Program to quantify the kinds and number of formal agreements that the PRCs hold with their partners.

20. Intervention Outputs (Projects section)

Added: Intervention outputs section

Function: Provides the PRC program with data on when an intervention has been tested and is demonstrating effectiveness.

21. Intervention Outcomes (Projects section)

Added: Intervention outcomes section

Function: Provides the PRC program with data on the dissemination of interventions, and policy or environmental changes made due to a PRC intervention.

22. Content Focus (Products section)

Added: Content Focus questions, including topic and population

Function: Provides the PRC Program with critical, specific information on the content of products, including health/behavior, research, and public health topics, and demographic characteristics.

23. Distribution (Products section)

Added: Product Distribution Section

Function: Provides the PRC Program output data on how products are distributed and the number distributed.

24. General Information (NEW Training section)

Added: Name of training, related projects and products, mode of delivery, intended audience, and related web site

Function: Provides the PRC Program with basic general information on the trainings that the PRCs are able to provide.

25. Contacts (NEW Training section)

Added: Contact person section

Function: Provides the PRC Program with information on a contact person for each training

26. Focus Area (NEW Training section)

Added: Content Focus questions, including topic and population

Function: Provides the PRC Program with critical, specific information on the health/behavior, research, and public health topics of each training.

27. Implementation (NEW Training section)

Added: Training implementation section

Function: Provides the PRC Program with quantitative data on how many times trainings were implemented and who attended the trainings.

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