NIOSH Hitchcock HMTS Expedited Review Form 110612

Health Message Testing System Expedited Review Form
1. Title of Study: (Please append screener and questionnaire)

Impact of a Truck Driver Public Health Practice Project

2. Study Population: (Discuss study population and explain how they will be selected/recruited.)

The intended population is long haul commercial truck drivers who visit a NIOSH web page to view sleep
health messages. The population will therefore be self-selecting and recruitment will primarily be through
announcements airing on Sirius XM satellite radio directing drivers to the web url. See Attachment A.
Respondent characteristics:
Number of subject: 100

Number of males:

90

Age range: 21-75 (estimated)

Number of females: 10

Racial/ethnic composition: unknown
Special group status: (e.g., risk group, health care providers)
Type of group(s): adult commercial long-haul heavy-truck drivers (must be 21 to
hold an interstate commercial driver license)
Geographic location(s): unknown; anticipated to be various locations throughout the
continental US.
3. Incentives: (State what incentive will be offered and justify proposed incentives to be used in study.)

There are no incentives offered in this study. Please refer to the included Attachment A for additional
information.

4. Study method: (Please check one below)
Central location intercept interview:
Online Interview:
Telephone interview:

Focus group:
Individual in-depth interview (cognitive interview):

(CATI used: yes or no): No

Other (describe): self-administered web-based survey

5. Purpose of the overall communication effort into which this health message(s) will fit:
(Please provide 2-3 sentences below.)

NIOSH developed a web page for commercial truck drivers that consists of information specifically
tailored for long-haul drivers on the need for adequate rest and quality sleep; dangers of fatigue; associated
health risks of inadequate rest; the functional deficits associated with difficult work scheduling patterns;
suggested countermeasures, and shared responsibility of the workplace and the worker to reduce fatiguerelated risks. The web page can be viewed at: http://www.tristatehfes.org/truckdrivers/index.shtml
6. Category of time sensitivity: (Please check one below)
Health emergency:
Time-limited audience access:
Press coverage correction:
Time-limited congressional/administrative mandate:
Trend Tracking
Ineffective existing materials due to historical event/social trends:
7. Describe nature of time sensitivity: (Please provide 2-3 sentences below.)
To stay within the allowable burden hours limit, the health message testing questions appearing on the
NIOSH web page will be removed from view and the html coding when the specified number of responses
(100) have been obtained.

8. Number of burden hours requested: 3.5

BURDEN HOURS
No. of
Participation
Respondents Time

Category of Respondent
Truck Drivers

100

Burden

2/60

3.5

Totals
9. Are you using questions from the approved question bank?

Yes

If yes, please list the item number(s) for questions used from the question bank separated by a comma.
(e.g., 1a, 3c, 130d)
1a, 2a, 26e, 29e, 30e, 33e, 39e, 41e, 20f, 32f, 47f, 52f. Please see Attachment B and C for a copy of the
questions. (Attachments D, E, and F are copies of the PSAs used for recruiting.)
*** Items below to be completed by Office of Associate Director for Communication (OADC)***
1. Number of burden hours remaining in current year's allocation: 6,213.5
2. OADC confirmation of time-sensitivity:
Yes:
No:

Sarah Lewis
Project Officer
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