Request for change

Request for Non-substantive Change to an Existing Information Collection Request

OMB Approval #0920-1252 – Expiration date 03/31/2022

Justification for non-substantive change:

The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (the Act) established the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program. This data collection effort is to evaluate progress toward translational research funded through the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP). RAND will be conducting a series of focus groups to ask stakeholders of the program about the research to date on health effects of 9/11, priority research areas going forward, and the use of research to achieve program outcomes.

We would like to make minor changes to the protocol and recruitment emails to improve clarity for the respondents and based on evolving priorities of the WTCHP since initial submission of the package. The following changes are proposed:

• The recruitment emails will be simplified in order to make them clearer for the respondents. The same information is presented, but slightly reordered for better flow and slightly different wording.

• The focus group protocol will be modified as follows: a few questions will be omitted given that they are no longer as relevant for the WTCHP’s needs; the wording of a few of the questions will be modified slightly to make them more understandable for respondents, and the order of the questions will be modified to make the flow of questions better for the respondents.

No additional burden will be added to the respondents as this collection is already accounted for in the current OMB package (0920-1252). We anticipate the total duration of each focus group to remain the same, despite proposing fewer questions, as we will give respondents more time to elaborate on their answers, and will ask probing and follow up questions as appropriate. The respondent does not complete any additional paperwork as the edits are minor changes to current language on the protocol.