RAPID: THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: PREDICTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF COMPLIANCE WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING RECOMMENDATIONS

快速：冠状病毒大流行：遵守社交距离建议的预测因素和后果

• 批准号: 2028429
• 负责人: Peggy Giordano
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Bowling Green State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028429&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; CORONAVIRUS; PANDEMIC; PREDICTORS; CONSEQUENCES

The need for social distancing measures implemented in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic is well established, but few studies have examined variability in compliance with this public health recommendation. It is particularly important to understand the social factors associated with this variability. This project builds on an ongoing longitudinal study of the life and relationship experiences of a large, diverse sample of young people interviewed first as adolescents, and subsequently interviewed multiple times as they have become adults. This provides an opportunity to interview these women and men to understand the process of navigating the guidelines, including: a) what factors predict more and less compliant responses to the social distancing guidelines; and b) what are the consequences of social distancing for emotional health, behavioral health, and relationship functioning. The findings of the project will alert researchers and policymakers to the myriad of personal and background characteristics that are associated with more or less compliance. This information will allow for the crafting of more effective public policies and messaging about social distancing, with the goal of promoting faster and more complete compliance during future pandemics. Social distancing is a vital tool in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, but we know little about who complies with guidelines and who does not. This project will draw on six waves of previously collected survey data (n=1,321) from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) and a new COVID-19 online survey that will be administered to all respondents. These longitudinal data provide a unique opportunity to examine precursors and consequences of variations in response to the current social distancing guidelines. The design also includes in-depth phone interviews with a subset of respondents who were compliant (n=25) and others who did not change behavior or failed to comply consistently (n=25). The qualitative component will provide help to understand compliance as a process, and develop insights about the role of social networks in either encouraging or minimizing the need to comply. In addition to assessing the role of sociodemographic characteristics, the project will analyze the effects of prior adverse childhood and adolescent experiences, economic and social uncertainties, and network embeddedness as influences on levels of compliance. The availability of previous measures of social and behavioral health and prior relationship circumstances will allow the project to determine effects of social distancing and the experience of the pandemic, controlling for prior background. The project will also examine whether consistent reports of depression at prior waves exacerbate or dampen the effect of the recent experience of social distancing. The emphasis on social determinants provides a counterpoint to approaches that conceptualize compliance with health-promoting recommendations as an individualistic, largely cognitive process, and more broadly, will contribute to the emerging science of behavior change. Findings will inform sociological theories regarding identity and symbolic interaction, as well as theories of inequality, especially within the context of extreme events.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在新的冠状病毒大流行之后实施的社会疏远措施的必要性已经确立，但很少有研究检查与这一公共卫生建议相一致的可变性。了解与这种变异性相关的社会因素尤为重要。这个项目建立在一项正在进行的纵向研究的基础上，对大量不同的年轻人的生活和关系经历进行了研究，这些年轻人在青少年时期首先接受采访，然后在他们成年后进行多次采访。这为访谈这些女性和男性提供了一个机会，以了解导航指南的过程，包括：a)什么因素预测对社交疏远指南的反应更顺从和更不顺从；以及b)社交疏远对情绪健康、行为健康和关系运作的影响是什么。该项目的发现将提醒研究人员和政策制定者注意与或多或少合规有关的无数个人和背景特征。这些信息将有助于制定更有效的公共政策和关于社会距离的信息，目的是在未来的大流行期间促进更快和更全面的遵守。社交距离是抗击新冠肺炎大流行的重要工具，但我们对谁遵守指南，谁不遵守指南知之甚少。该项目将利用之前从托莱多青少年关系研究(TARS)收集的六波调查数据(n=1,321)和一项新的新冠肺炎在线调查，该调查将面向所有受访者。这些纵向数据提供了一个独特的机会来检查变化的前兆和后果，以回应当前的社会距离指导方针。该设计还包括对部分符合要求的受访者(n=25)和其他没有改变行为或未能始终如一地遵守规定的人(n=25)进行深入的电话采访。定性部分将有助于将遵约理解为一个过程，并深入了解社交网络在鼓励或尽量减少遵约需要方面的作用。除了评估社会人口特征的作用外，该项目还将分析先前不利的童年和青少年经历、经济和社会不确定性以及网络嵌入性对遵从性水平的影响。有了以前的社会和行为健康以及以前关系情况的衡量标准，该项目将能够确定社会距离的影响和流行病的经历，并控制以前的背景。该项目还将研究之前抑郁的持续报道是否会加剧或抑制最近的社交疏远经历的影响。对社会决定因素的强调提供了与将遵守促进健康的建议概念化为个人主义的、主要是认知过程的方法相反的方法，更广泛地说，将有助于新兴的行为改变科学。调查结果将为有关身份和符号互动的社会学理论以及不平等理论提供参考，特别是在极端事件的背景下。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。