Shelter-in-Place Compliance During Hazardous Release Emergencies: The Effect of Communications Access in Terrorist/Accidental Chemical/Radiological Events

这项研究将探讨影响遵守紧急就地安置命令的因素。令人惊讶的是，从科学的角度对这个问题知之甚少。这项研究将是推动我们对就地庇护合规性的科学理解的重要一步。应用于公共安全具有重要意义。这一应急反应的关键工具出现问题，可能危及公民和应急人员的生命。这项研究所产生的新知识将为应急规划提供独特和急需的资源。通过这种方式，它将通过提供专门为专业应急规划者社区编写的全面报告来服务于国家福利。最后，这项研究将直接服务于改善国家安全的目标。该项目将涉及与我们的技术社会有关的危险以及潜在的恐怖主义行为。该项目的第一部分将研究就地掩蔽的经验。我们将找到五个适当的事件，并在每个案件中向500人发送快速响应邮件调查。该调查将关注合规性以及可能影响该行为的各种特征。该项目的第二部分将模拟就地避难行为。1,200名参与者将参加一个在线实验。该实验将呈现16种不同的紧急情况，参与者将被随机分配。参与者将在向他们展示其中一个场景描述后完成一份调查问卷。所有治疗条件下的问卷都是相同的，与项目第一部分的问卷非常相似。这样就有可能将从最近实际经历过就地安置命令的个人那里学到的东西与从实验中学到的东西进行比较。

This study will look at factors affecting compliance to emergency shelter-in-place orders. Surprisingly little is known about this topic from a scientific perspective. This study will be an important step to drive our scientific understanding of shelter-in-place compliance. The application to public safety is highly significant. Problems in this critical tool for emergency response can place the lives of both citizens and emergency responders at risk. The new knowledge generated by this study will provide a unique and greatly needed resource for emergency planning. In that way it will serve the national welfare by providing a comprehensive report written specifically for the community of professional emergency planners. Finally, this study will directly serve the goal of improving national security. It will do so concerning the hazards associated with our technological society and also concerning potential terrorist acts.The project will have two parts. The first part of the project will look at the experience of sheltering-in-place. We will locate five appropriate incidents and send a rapid response mail survey to 500 individuals in each case. The survey will look at compliance and a wide variety of characteristics that may affect that behavior. The second part of the project will model shelter-in-place behavior. A sample of 1,200 participants will take part in an online experiment. The experiment will present 16 different emergency scenarios that the participants will be randomly assigned to. Participants will complete a questionnaire after they have been shown one of the scenario descriptions. The questionnaire will be identical across all treatment conditions and will be very similar to the questionnaires in the first part of the project. It will then be possible to make a comparison between what is learned from individuals who have actually experienced a recent shelter-in-place order and what is learned from the experiment.