Agricultural health Study (A Prospective Cohort Study of Cancer and Other Diseases Among Men and Women in Agriculture) - Validation Sub-Study on Rheumatoid Arthritis
ICR 200203-0925-002
OMB: 0925-0406
Federal Form Document
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Agricultural health Study (A
Prospective Cohort Study of Cancer and Other Diseases Among Men and
Women in Agriculture) - Validation Sub-Study on Rheumatoid
Arthritis
The Agricultural Health Study, a
prospective cohort of 89,189 farmers, their spouses, and commercial
applicators of pesticides from Iowa and North Carolina, provides
information on specific medical conditions. The current efforts
seeks to evaluate efficacy of certain questions or sets of
questions for screening out false-positives for self-reported RA
and to identify subgroups to target for etiologic studies based on
relatively high prevalence of RA and feasibility of disease
confirmation.
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).
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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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and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.