SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION COLLECTION
UNDER GENERIC CLEARANCES
DATE OF REQUEST: 4/24/2009
SUB AGENCY (I/C): National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
TITLE: Developing Best Practices to Encourage Non-Residential Fathers’ Participation in the National Children’s Study: Perspectives from both Unwed, Non-Residential Mothers and Fathers
GENERIC CLEARANCE UNDER OMB# 0925-0590 EXP. DATE: 06/30/2011
Given the enormous percentage
of nonresidential fathers in certain socio-demographic groups, best
practices for negotiating participation in the NCS among unwed,
nonresidential fathers must be developed. This study proposes to
employ focus group methodologies to explore how best to facilitate
participation of nonresidential fathers in the NCS. Specifically, 6
focus groups will be convened with pregnant or parenting women that
do not live with the father of the baby to ascertain how best to
convey the importance of father participation so that women will be
likely to provide father contact information and/or facilitate his
participation. Additionally, 6 focus groups will be conducted with
nonresidential fathers of young children to develop best practices
to describe the study and gain participation.
The results of this study will
be used to inform our development of local strategies and activities
to enhance the willingness of non-residential mothers to facilitate
NCS contact with the father of her baby and to create best practices
for contacting, and enrolling, non-residential fathers.
Qualitative methods will be
used to seek input from both groups (non-residential fathers and
mothers) on a variety of perceived facilitators and barriers to
father participation in the NCS. Information will be gathered
using focus groups and follow-up interview methods (if necessary).
TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN APPROVED: 5825 hours
BURDEN USED TO DATE: 330 hours
BURDEN THIS REQUEST: 100.3 hours
IS RACE AND ETHNICITY DATA COLLECTED AS REQUIRED?
__X___YES ______NO_____N/A
OBLIGATION TO RESPOND:
__X__ VOLUNTARY
______ REQUIRED TO OBTAIN OR RETAIN BENEFITS
______ MANDATORY
HOW WILL THIS SURVEY BE OFFERED?
_____ WEB SITE
__X__ TELEPHONE INTERVIEW
_____ MAIL RESPONSE
__X__ IN PERSON INTERVIEW
_____ OTHER: ___________________________________
CONTACT INFORMATION:
NAME: Dr. Ken Schoendorf
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 301-594-1302
EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]
| File Type | application/msword |
| File Title | SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION COLLECTION |
| Author | briggsam |
| Last Modified By | curriem |
| File Modified | 2009-04-28 |
| File Created | 2009-04-28 |