This is a request to OMB for a reinstatement with change, three additional years of data collection for the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). As in the past, HINTS V will provide NCI with a comprehensive assessment of the American publicâs current access to and use of information about cancer across the cancer care continuum from cancer prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. The content of the survey will focus on understanding the degree to which members of the general population understand vital cancer prevention messages. More importantly, this NCI survey will couple knowledge-related questions with inquiries into the communication channels through which understanding is being obtained, and assessment of cancer-related behavior. Working with the Office of the National Coordinator, HINTS V will include an additional focus on the publicâs use of electronic medical and health records.
This submission requests a reinstatement with changes that will reinstatement the burden of this information collection and provide data for comparison with the previous HINTS survey data. HINTS V will use the same sampling and data collection strategy as HINTS IV. The data collection instruments for HINTS V will vary slightly from those in HINTS IV to reflect evolving government priorities (as described in detail in section A.1, page 3), although there will always be a core of at least 50% of the instrument which will remain the same as HINTS IV. The changes made to the instrument from the HINTS IV cycle can be found in Appendix L. For this first cycle of HINTS V, the survey instrument (found in Appendix D) has a total of 139 survey items. Of these, 26.5 items (19%) are new to HINTS. As noted in section A.2, most of these new items were developed in conjunction with the ONC and focus on the publicâs interactions with a connected healthcare system. Section A.16 below describes the analytic importance of these new items in combination with traditional HINTS items. The remaining 112.5 items on the HINTS V, Cycle 1 instrument were either fielded on HINTS IV, Cycle 4 (75%) or on earlier HINTS cycles (6%). Appendix L lists all changes from HINTS 4, Cycle 4. In addition, HINTS V will include a pilot study, which increases the annual burden request from 1,750 in HINTS IV to 2,017 in HINTS V. This is an overall increase of 217
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;
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