Shelter-in-Place Compliance During Hazardous Release Emergencies: The Effect of Communications Access in Terrorist/Accidental Chemical/Radiological Events

这项研究将考察影响遵守紧急避难所就地命令的因素。令人惊讶的是，从科学角度来看，人们对这一主题知之甚少。这项研究将是推动我们对就地避难所遵守情况的科学理解的重要一步。其在公共安全领域的应用具有重要意义。这一应急的关键工具出现问题，可能会危及公民和应急人员的生命安全。这项研究产生的新知识将为应急计划提供独特和迫切需要的资源。这样，它将通过提供一份专门为专业应急规划者社区撰写的全面报告来服务于国家福利。最后，这项研究将直接服务于提高国家安全的目标。它将考虑到与我们的技术社会相关的危险，也将考虑到潜在的恐怖主义行为。该项目的第一部分将着眼于就地避难的经验。我们将定位五起适当的事件，并向每一起事件中的500人发送快速响应邮件调查。这项调查将考察合规性以及可能影响这一行为的各种特征。该项目的第二部分将模拟就地避难行为。1200名参与者将参加一项在线实验。这项实验将呈现16种不同的紧急情况，参与者将被随机分配到这些场景中。参与者将在看到其中一个场景描述后完成一份调查问卷。调查问卷在所有治疗条件下都是相同的，并且与项目第一部分中的调查问卷非常相似。然后，可以将从实际经历过就地避难秩序的人那里学到的东西与从实验中学到的东西进行比较。

This study will look at factors affecting compliance to emergency shelter-in-place orders. Surprisingly little is known about this topic from a scientific perspective. This study will be an important step to drive our scientific understanding of shelter-in-place compliance. The application to public safety is highly significant. Problems in this critical tool for emergency response can place the lives of both citizens and emergency responders at risk. The new knowledge generated by this study will provide a unique and greatly needed resource for emergency planning. In that way it will serve the national welfare by providing a comprehensive report written specifically for the community of professional emergency planners. Finally, this study will directly serve the goal of improving national security. It will do so concerning the hazards associated with our technological society and also concerning potential terrorist acts.The project will have two parts. The first part of the project will look at the experience of sheltering-in-place. We will locate five appropriate incidents and send a rapid response mail survey to 500 individuals in each case. The survey will look at compliance and a wide variety of characteristics that may affect that behavior. The second part of the project will model shelter-in-place behavior. A sample of 1,200 participants will take part in an online experiment. The experiment will present 16 different emergency scenarios that the participants will be randomly assigned to. Participants will complete a questionnaire after they have been shown one of the scenario descriptions. The questionnaire will be identical across all treatment conditions and will be very similar to the questionnaires in the first part of the project. It will then be possible to make a comparison between what is learned from individuals who have actually experienced a recent shelter-in-place order and what is learned from the experiment.