SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Health Behavior in School-Age Children - U.S. Survey
- Notice Date
- 1/10/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541910
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- 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
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7510
- Solicitation Number
- RFP-NIH-NICHD-2005-08
- Response Due
- 2/25/2005
- Archive Date
- 3/12/2005
- Description
- 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 a national school-based 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. The HBSC survey is conducted among national or regional samples of students at ages 11, 13, and 15 years of age in about 35 countries. The goal of the 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 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. A survey consistent with the HBSC was conducted in the U.S. previously in 1997-1998 and 2001-2002. 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 U.S. students experiment with tobacco in comparable proportions to youth in other countries. The most recent survey demonstrated that 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, and utilization of health care. The U.S. survey shall be conducted during the 2005-2006 school year and will address health-related factors according to rigorous protocols developed by the HBSC (to made available by June of 2005), and should also include additional factors and dimensions that are relevant to the U.S. experience. The nationally-representative probability sample for the school-based survey requires a minimum of 1536 students/age group with mean ages 11.5, 13.5, and 15.5 and a total of 5000 students with confidence intervals of 95% +/- 3% and a design factor of 1.2. Over-sampling of racial minorities shall be required. This is a time-sensitive requirement and will require a national network of data collectors. Request For Proposal (RFP) RFP-NICHD-2005-08 will be available electronically on the FedBizOpps website at http://www1.eps.gov/spg/HHS/NIH (under National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) on or about January 26, 2005, and the proposals shall be due 30 days after the release of the RFP on or about February 25, 2005. The NICHD does not intend to release hard copies of the RFP. All responsible parties may submit a proposal which shall be considered for contract award. The Government reserves the right to cancel the requirement at any time prior to contract award.
- Record
- SN00732284-W 20050112/050110211701 (fbodaily.com)
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