EAGER: RUI: How Do Multigenerational Households Provide Care, Manage Risk and Negotiate Infectious Disease Safety during the Pandemic?

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。多代同堂的家庭安排，定义为有一个祖父母，父母和孩子共同居住在一个家庭，长期以来一直实行其经济和文化利益的家庭。然而，冠状病毒大流行已将这些经济生存策略转变为高风险的生活条件，因为家庭传播仍然是COVID-19感染的主要来源。尽管建议物理距离，接种疫苗，戴口罩，如果未接种疫苗，消毒，并得到测试，很少有人知道如何容易多代家庭成员可以应用这些建议鉴于真实的世界的意外事件有关的工作，亲属，和文化义务。随着疫苗接种率放缓和企业重新开业，对于有必要工作人员的家庭来说尤其如此。这项研究的结果将有助于就如何加强公共卫生应对措施提出建议，以适应不仅是个人，而且是家庭（广义上的家庭），特别是生活在多代同堂的家庭中的家庭。该研究是作为基于课程的本科生研究经验（CURE）的一部分实施的，学生在一个小学本科，西班牙裔服务机构，以扩大学生在干的参与。该项目调查了多代同堂的家庭在大流行期间如何在协商冠状病毒安全的同时提供护理。该研究将在以下背景下进行：鉴于多代同堂的家庭安排，家庭组成和家庭外就业的变化对COVID-19产生了特定的脆弱性。研究人员使用人种学和排名方法来比较风险认知，减少伤害的做法，以及在有限的资源和近距离生活的背景下与文化特定的护理角色相关的社会关系问题。该项目为研究人员提供了建立研究设计模型的基础，这些研究人员在多代家庭中评估疾病传播的风险评估，这些家庭的疾病暴露率较高，并且通常不太能够遵守公共卫生指南。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Multigenerational household arrangements, defined as having a grandparent, parent, and child co-residing in one household—has long been practiced for its economic and cultural benefits to families. However, the coronavirus pandemic has turned these economic survival strategies into high risk living conditions as household transmission remains a primary source of COVID-19 infections. Despite recommendations to physically distance, vaccinate, wear masks if unvaccinated, sanitize, and get tested, little is known about how readily multigenerational household members can apply these recommendations given real world contingencies related to work, kin, and cultural obligations. This is especially true for households with essential workers as vaccination rates slow down and businesses reopen. The results of this study will contribute to recommendations for how to strengthen public health responses to accommodate not just individuals but families (broadly conceived), particularly those living in multigenerational households. The study is implemented as part of a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) with students at a Primarily Undergraduate, Hispanic-Serving Institution, to broaden participation of students in STEM. This project investigates how multigenerational households provide care while negotiating coronavirus safety during the pandemic. The study will be conducted in a context in which variation in household composition and employment outside the home create specific vulnerabilities to COVID-19 given multigenerational household arrangements. The investigators use ethnographic and ranking methods to compare risk perceptions, harm reduction practices, and social relational issues associated with culturally specific care roles in a context of limited resources and close living quarters. The project provides the foundations for building a research design model for researchers who evaluate risk assessment for disease transmission within multigenerational households where disease exposure is higher, and frequently less able to adhere to public health guidelines.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.