MODIFICATION
A -- Health Behavior in School-Age Children
- Notice Date
- 11/9/2006
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Contracts Management Branch 6100 Executive Blvd., Suite 7A07, MSC7510, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7510, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7510
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NICHD-PRB-SS-2007-08
- Response Due
- 11/16/2006
- Point of Contact
- Elizabeth Osinski, Lead Contract Specialist, Phone 301-435-6947, Fax 301-402-3676,
- E-Mail Address
-
osinskie@mail.niddk.gov
- Description
- This modification corrects the Point of Contact e-mail address for Elizabeth Osinski to read: osinskie@mail.nih.gov. A secondary point of contact is also added to this announcement, Jacqueline Holden, at jh55b@nih.gov. Original Announcement: The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is interested in identifying Small Business organizations with requisite qualifications to assist with the conduct of two large scale nationally-representative school-based surveys on adolescent health behavior. The Prevention Research Branch (PRB), an intramural research group of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), conducts research on child and adolescent health behavior. One of the PRB areas of emphasis is assessment of the prevalence and determinants of health behavior among adolescents. Toward this end, the PRB plans to conduct two surveys beginning in the 2009-2010 school year: a cross-sectional national probability survey of U.S. 6th-10th graders that is also consistent with the requirements of the international Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey; and a 4-year longitudinal survey of independent national probability samples of U.S. 11-year-old and 15-year-old students. The HBSC survey is conducted among national or regional samples of students at ages 11, 13, and 15 in about 40 countries. The cross-sectional international HBSC survey requires at least 1536 youth in each age group and a total of 5000 students. The goal of the cross-sectional HBSC survey is to obtain data about adolescent health behavior and to make this information available so as to enable the improvement of health services and programs for youth. The goals of the cross-sectional U.S. survey are to provide health behavior information about adolescents nationally (U.S.-specific protocol) and to enable international comparisons by incorporating the mandatory HBSC protocol. The U.S. longitudinal survey requires a probability sample that will permit estimates of population percentages with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level for each age. The goals of the U.S. longitudinal survey include: to identify the trajectory of adolescent health behaviors from pre-adolescence through the post high school year; to examine the predictors of the onset of key adolescent risk behaviors during this period; to identify family, school, and social/environmental factors that promote or sustain positive health behaviors; and to identify transition points in health risk behaviors and changes in family, school, and social/environmental precursors to these transitions. Surveys consistent with the cross-sectional HBSC were conducted in the U.S. in 1997-1998, 2001-2002, and 2005-2006. In international comparisons, previous HBSC surveys showed that U.S. 15-year-old youth are less likely to smoke than students in most other countries surveyed, even though 13-year-old US students experiment with tobacco in comparable proportions to youth in other countries. U.S. youth are more likely to be overweight than students in the other HBSC countries. U.S. eating habits were also shown to be less healthy with a comparatively high proportion of youth consuming high fat foods and soft drinks with sugar. Analyses of the U.S. national data set have addressed bullying, unintentional injury, behaviors related to obesity, and utilization of health care. The 2009-2010 U.S. surveys will address health-related factors according to rigorous protocols to be developed by the HBSC by June of 2009, and should also include additional factors and dimensions that are relevant to the U.S. experience. To be deemed capable, a small business must demonstrate their ability to: 1) develop a school-based, national probability sampling plan that would provide a nationally-representative sample, including appropriate over-sampling of racial minority students; 2) employ contacts NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (09-NOV-2006). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 26-JAN-2007, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NICHD/Reference-Number-NICHD-PRB-SS-2007-08/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Unknown
- Zip Code: 20892
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN01220511-F 20070128/070126224048 (fbodaily.com)
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