RAPID: Behavioral Drivers and Social Pathways in the Spread of the COVID-19 Omicron Variant

RAPID：COVID-19 Omicron 变体传播中的行为驱动因素和社交途径

• 批准号: 2211867
• 负责人: Amy Stambach
• 金额: $ 2.09万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2211867&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Behavioral; Drivers; Social; Pathways

This project examines the behavioral drivers and real-time changes in behavior affecting the potential transmission of the Omicron variant off the SARS-COV-2 respiratory virus during critical moments of crowding, mingling, and interacting in close quarters. It aims specifically to understand the social complexities of ritual and travel that reduce or heighten the risk of COVID-19 infection. Data from the study contributes intellectually to high-priority biomedical research that seeks to advance public health interventions. This study will provide critical information for the development of public health programs and guidelines that address the risks communities face with the Omicron variant. The project also provides training for graduate and undergraduate students in methods of rigorous, scientific data collection and analysis.This study tests existing theoretical presumptions that people disregard state-mandated health regulations at moments when cultural, religious, and social rites of solidarity and obligations take priority. The emergence of the highly contagious Omicron variant during a peak travel season provides an opportunity to map transmission pathways in real time. This project triangulates ephemeral data regarding holiday travel and religious ceremonies with social network information and household demographics. Data from behavioral observations of religious ceremonies will yield information about social practices compared with state-mandated regulations of masking, vaccinating, and social distancing. Data regarding social networks will yield information about linked urban-rural migrant pathways for potential disease transmission. Data from interviews will record age, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, marital status, family size, and will aid in mapping migratory patterns and social networks.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.

该项目研究了在拥挤、混合和近距离互动的关键时刻，影响SARS-COV-2呼吸道病毒Omicron变体潜在传播的行为驱动因素和行为的实时变化。它旨在特别了解仪式和旅行的社会复杂性，减少或增加COVID-19感染的风险。该研究的数据为寻求推进公共卫生干预措施的高度优先生物医学研究做出了智力贡献。这项研究将为制定公共卫生计划和指导方针提供关键信息，以解决社区面临的Omicron变异风险。该项目还为研究生和本科生提供严格的科学数据收集和分析方法的培训。这项研究测试了现有的理论假设，即人们在文化，宗教和社会团结和义务仪式优先的时候无视国家规定的健康法规。在旅行高峰期出现的高传染性奥密克隆变种为真实的绘制传播途径提供了机会。该项目将有关假日旅行和宗教仪式的短暂数据与社交网络信息和家庭人口统计数据进行三角测量。从宗教仪式的行为观察数据将产生有关社会实践的信息，与国家规定的掩蔽，接种疫苗和社交距离的规定相比。有关社交网络的数据将产生有关城乡流动人口潜在疾病传播途径的信息。访谈数据将记录年龄、种族、性别、社会经济状况、婚姻状况、家庭规模，并将有助于绘制迁移模式和社交网络。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。