Social learning about COVID-19 vulnerability and social distancing in high density populations: the case of UK urban dwelling Bangladeshis

关于高密度人口中的 COVID-19 脆弱性和社交距离的社会学习：英国城市居住的孟加拉国人的案例

• 批准号: ES/V010018/1
• 负责人: Chris Tang
• 金额: $ 17.39万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV010018%2F1
• 关键词: Social; learning; about; COVID; 19

Early epidemiology indicates older members of Britain's Bangladeshi communities are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality. Bangladeshis are more likely to have comorbidities and live in poorer, overcrowded areas in the UK's urban centres where viral contagion is more likely. This cross-section of socioeconomic, geographical and health related factors underlines the need for clear messaging about social distancing in a complex and shifting risk scenario - messages that this vulnerable group, who speak an oral language (Sylheti), may not be able to access directly due to low literacy and English language proficiency.This study will identify the practices adopted by Bangladeshis in a London borough in response to the pandemic, the attitudes and beliefs that underlie them and whether and how these have been influenced by messages about social distancing. Drawing on our earlier work, it will examine the role of social learning in how messages are accessed and interpreted and whether and how the health interactions of this older group are mediated by friends, family members and acquaintances. Remote interviews with older Bangladeshis and their social contacts who perform this mediating role will provide insights into how linguistically and culturally appropriate messaging can build on existing beliefs and practices to promote compliance, and on social mediation as a dissemination strategy. We will identify the role of choice of language (English or Sylheti), the differences between written and oral representations of COVID-19 risk, and the manifold ways in which linguistic choices give salience to aspects of a risk scenario.

早期流行病学表明，英国孟加拉社区的老年成员受到与新冠肺炎相关的发病率和死亡率的影响不成比例。孟加拉人更有可能患有合并症，生活在英国市中心更贫穷、更拥挤的地区，那里更有可能发生病毒传播。这种与社会经济、地理和健康相关的跨领域因素突出表明，在复杂和不断变化的风险情景中，需要就社会疏远发出明确的信息--由于识字和英语水平较低，这一说口语(Sylheti)的弱势群体可能无法直接获取这些信息。这项研究将确定孟加拉人在伦敦一个行政区为应对大流行而采取的做法，这些做法背后的态度和信仰，以及这些信息是否以及如何受到有关社会疏远的信息的影响。在我们早期工作的基础上，它将研究社交学习在信息如何被获取和解释中的作用，以及朋友、家人和熟人是否以及如何协调这一老年群体的健康互动。对发挥这一调解作用的孟加拉老年人及其社会联系人的远程访谈将使人们深入了解在语言和文化上适当的信息传递如何能够建立在现有信仰和做法的基础上以促进遵守，并将社会调解作为一种传播战略。我们将确定语言选择的作用(英语或西尔赫特语)，新冠肺炎风险的书面和口头表述之间的差异，以及语言选择突出风险情景各个方面的多种方式。