RAPID: American Indian Authorities, Trust, and Collective Action during the Covid-19 Pandemic

该项目将确定公民如何应对和利用来自不同来源的公共卫生政策信息，为其应对COVID-19大流行的个人决策提供信息。该项目将提供系统和严谨的证据，说明公民对信任和合法性的看法如何以及为什么会影响他们对当局提供的关于公共卫生政策的不同信息来源的反应。该项目的成果将有助于加深对公共和私营部门如何通过提供有关抗击COVID-19和未来公共卫生危机的公共卫生政策信息，与公民和社区建立信任的理解。这项研究将采用多波调查实验，以农村为基础的全国和选定的州人口样本为基础，检查哪些提供公共卫生政策指导方针的信息来源被公民认为是可信和合法的。反过来，将对这些评估进行审查，以确定它们如何影响个人对遵守封锁令和疫苗可用时使用疫苗的选择。该项目的研究结果将促进以下方面的基础研究：集体行动的起因、公众对科学信息和专门知识的反应和使用、改善公共卫生政策的社会决定因素以及危机时期不同信息战略的效力。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。

This project will determine how citizens react to and utilize information from different sources on public health policies to inform their individual decisions on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will provide systematic and rigorous evidence on how and why citizens’ perceptions of trust and legitimacy condition their response to different sources of information from authorities on public health policies. The results of this project will contribute to improving the understanding of how public and private authorities can build trust with citizens and communities through the information they provide on public health policies to combat COVID-19 and future public health crises.The research will use multi-wave, survey experiments on rural-based national and select state populations samples to examine which sources of information providing guidelines on public health policies are deemed trustworthy and legitimate by citizens. Those evaluations in turn will be examined to determine how they influence individual choices about compliance with lockdown orders and the use of vaccines when they become available. The findings of the project will advance basic research on the causes of collective action, the public’s reaction to and use of scientific information and expertise, the social determinants of improving public health policies, and the efficacy of different information strategies in times of crisis.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.