RAPID: COVID-19 Information Exposure and Messaging Effects

RAPID：COVID-19 信息暴露和消息传递效果

• 批准号: 2028485
• 负责人: Brendan Nyhan
• 金额: $ 19.9万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 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: 2020-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028485&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; COVID; 19; Information; Exposure

Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic requires understanding what information people have about the disease and how officials can improve public knowledge and encourage behaviors that will protect public health. By measuring COVID-19 beliefs and attitudes, this study provides insights into public beliefs about COVID-19 and the efficacy of government and health messaging about the pandemic, and how those quantities change over time. In addition to measuring respondents’ knowledge about COVID-19, the research team assesses how people’s online media consumption is related to their patterns of knowledge. Finally, the study provides information about the effectiveness of public health messages on respondents’ knowledge about COVID-19 and support for public health policies.The research team is collecting behavioral and survey data from Americans in a multi-wave nationally representative survey. This survey includes oversamples of respondents who live in areas with high numbers of COVID-19 cases and who have voluntarily agreed to provide data on their online browsing activity. Each wave measures both the prevalence of different types of beliefs about COVID-19 and reported support for and adherence to recommendations from public health authorities. To evaluate responses to information from public health officials, the second survey wave includes a randomized experiment evaluating the effects of messaging from health and medical authorities. Finally, the study characterizes the information people consume online about the pandemic by analyzing the behavioral data provided by respondents using a combination of human-coded and machine learning approaches.This project is jointly funded by DRMS and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

抗击 COVID-19 大流行需要了解人们掌握的有关该疾病的信息以及官员如何提高公众知识并鼓励保护公众健康的行为。通过测量 COVID-19 信念和态度，这项研究深入了解了公众对 COVID-19 的信念、政府和健康信息对这一流行病的有效性，以及这些数量如何随时间变化。除了衡量受访者对 COVID-19 的了解之外，研​​究团队还评估人们的在线媒体消费与其知识模式的关系。最后，该研究提供了有关公共卫生信息对受访者对 COVID-19 的了解和对公共卫生政策的支持的有效性的信息。研究团队正在一项多波全国代表性调查中收集美国人的行为和调查数据。这项调查对居住在 COVID-19 病例较多地区且自愿同意提供在线浏览活动数据的受访者进行了过度抽样。每波都衡量了对 COVID-19 的不同类型信念的流行程度，以及对公共卫生当局建议的支持和遵守情况。为了评估对公共卫生官员信息的反应，第二轮调查包括一项随机实验，评估卫生和医疗当局信息的影响。最后，该研究通过结合人类编码和机器学习方法分析受访者提供的行为数据来描述人们在线消费的有关疫情的信息。该项目由 DRMS 和刺激竞争性研究既定计划 (EPSCoR) 共同资助。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。