RAPID: A Comparative Study of How Context Shapes Responses to COVID-19

这一合作快速研究项目的主要目标是加深我们对文化和政治背景如何塑造人们对新冠肺炎大流行的感知和应对方式的理解。研究小组将在多个城市和农村地区进行400次访谈，进行分析，旨在了解个人如何构建和修改他们的感知，从各种来源获得信息，以及他们与朋友和家人的互动网络。该项目的成果将使人们更深入地了解在不同文化和政治背景下形成对公共政策反应的看法和行为的社会机制。对疾病的感知(即感知的严重性、易感性和威胁)塑造了感知到的行动障碍和好处，这反过来又影响了行为。虽然这些认知对于理解与健康相关的行为以及支持各种治疗和行动是重要的，但理解这些认知是如何产生的也是至关重要的。项目访谈和分析将广泛分发，为政策制定者和其他寻求了解疫情中恐惧、风险感知、准备和可接受行动的多样性的人提供扎实的指导。研究小组将收集根据群体对大流行过程(信息和传染病病原体的传播和治疗)的重要性而选择的群体的定性和定量数据。这些群体分为五类：科学家、医疗专业人员、教师、非正规部门和失业者。访谈的目的是确定关于新冠肺炎传播、治疗和风险的主要信息来源，包括新媒体和旧媒体，以及与它们在地区、职业和城乡地区的相对重要性相关的因素；检查从绝对和相对两个方面影响来源可信度的因素；并评估对新冠肺炎传播、治疗和风险的知识水平和准备程度。它们将被用来确定与当前治疗、隔离和遏制技术谱相关的主要恐惧和担忧。该项目的结果将有助于理解文化和政治背景对疫情信息和指令的不同反应方式，并将为寻求了解这些差异的政策制定者提供指导。该项目由科学和技术研究计划和既定的激励竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)联合资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The primary objective of this collaborative RAPID research project is to further our understanding of how cultural and political contexts shape the ways people perceive and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team will conduct 400 interviews across multiple urban and rural areas for an analysis oriented towards understanding how individuals construct and modify their perceptions given information from a wide variety of sources and their network of interactions with friends and family. The results of this project will provide a deeper understanding of the social mechanisms that shape perceptions and behaviors to public policy responses in culturally and politically diverse contexts. Perceptions of disease (i.e., perceived seriousness, susceptibility, and threat) shape perceived barriers and benefits to action, which in turn affect behavior. While it is given that these perceptions are important to understand health-related behaviors as well as support for various treatments and actions, it is crucial to understand how these perceptions are generated. The project interviews and the analysis are to be widely distributed to provide grounded guidance for policy makers and others seeking to understand the diversity of fears, risk perceptions, preparedness, and acceptable actions in pandemics.The research team will collect qualitative and quantitative data on groups selected for their importance to pandemic processes (transmission and treatment of information and infectious agents). The groups are stratified into five categories: scientists, medical professionals, teachers, the informal sector, and the unemployed. The purposes of the Interviews are to Identify the principal sources of information about COVID-19 transmission, treatment, and risk, including both new and old media as well as the factors associated with their relative importance across regions, occupations, and rural/urban areas; to examine factors that impact the credibility of sources in both absolute and relative terms; and to assess the level of knowledge and preparation for COVID-19 transmission, treatment, and risk. They will be used to Identify primary fears and concerns relevant to the current spectrum of treatment, isolation, and containment technologies. The results of this project will contribute to an understanding of the different ways cultural and political contexts shape response to outbreak information and directives, and they will provide guidance for policy makers seeking to understand these differences.This project is jointly funded by the Science and Technology Studied Program, and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.