RAPID: Social Factors Influencing Compliance with Quarantine and Distancing in the Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission

2019冠状病毒病传播带来的不确定性催生了一系列旨在控制感染传播的法规。然而，这些措施的经济和社会后果对已经生活在经济困难和健康状况不佳的条件下的脆弱家庭产生了不同的影响。本研究考察了社会、经济和健康不平等如何影响家庭遵守减少感染传播可能必要的法规的能力。该项目将探讨短期家庭决策如何对贫困、社会边缘化和对较高感染率的易感性产生长期影响。该项目有助于了解在2019冠状病毒病背景下促进和阻碍遵守法规的社会和文化因素；正在传播数据和调查结果，以改进遏制进程。该项目还对研究生进行协作工作和建立跨多个地点的学者网络方面的培训，以加强对灾害管理反应的研究，并在危机期间实施研究方法。通过对2019冠状病毒病传播和相关遏制措施造成的极端不确定性条件下家庭决策的多地点研究，该研究评估了社会经济因素在实现遵守社交距离和隔离要求方面的作用。它评估了家庭内部不平等、医疗基础设施的变化、对耻辱和监视的恐惧、对社会支持的信心以及社会网络如何影响决策。将选择10个不同地点的80户家庭进行分析，这些家庭具有不同的亚人口和不同的宗教、民族和种族组成。通过将分析单位定为家庭而非个人，该项目将独特地有助于理解家庭动态以及COVID-19大流行对家庭不平等的不成比例影响。多地点的研究设计对于研究在理论上看似相似的遏制模式如何在不同的社会和政治背景下转化为截然不同的实施模式至关重要。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The uncertainty created by the spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a range of regulations designed to control the spread of infections. However, the economic and social consequences of such measures have differential impacts on vulnerable households already living in conditions of economic hardship and poor health. This research examines how social, economic, and health inequalities impact the capabilities of households to follow regulations that may be necessary to reduce the spread of infections. The project will explore how short-term household decision-making impacts long-term consequences for poverty, social marginality, and susceptibility to higher infection rates. The project contributes to understanding the social and culture factors that enable and inhibit compliance with regulations in the context of COVID-19; data and findings being disseminated to improve containment processes. This project also trains graduate students in collaborative work and in building a network of scholars across multiple sites that can strengthen research on responses to disaster management and implement research methods during periods of crises. Through a multi-site study of household decision-making under conditions of extreme uncertainty created by the spread of COVID-19 and associated containment regulations, the research assesses the role socioeconomic factors play in achieving compliance with social distancing and quarantine requirements. It evaluates how intra-household inequalities, changes in medical infrastructure, fears of stigma and surveillance, confidence in social support, and social networks influence decisions. Eighty households across ten different sites with contrasting sub-populations and differing religious, ethnic, and racial composition will be selected for analysis. By taking the unit of analysis to be the household rather than the individual, the project will uniquely contribute to the understanding of household dynamics and the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on household inequalities. The multi-site research design will be critical in investigating how models of containment which appear similar in theory might translate into very different modes of implementation in different social and political contexts.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.