RAPID: A Probability-Based, National-Representative Survey of Americans Before, During, and After the Pandemic

这个项目通过对成年人的调查来考察新冠肺炎大流行对美国社会的影响，这些成年人在大流行之前、期间和之后都会接受调查。这项研究衡量了与大流行相关的健康经历，包括知识、行为和经历(如暴露、传染、检测)，大流行控制措施的经济影响，以及与压力、焦虑和心理健康相关的社会和心理变化。它分析了社会和心理结果与大流行的健康影响直接相关的程度，以及大流行对经济的破坏对这些影响的程度。然后，它反过来研究压力水平以及社会和心理健康如何影响与健康相关的行为和健康结果。这些知识有助于提供信息，并可能改进缓解当前大流行破坏的努力，并导致制定更好的计划和对未来大流行的反应。这些研究目标是通过纵向和比较设计实现的，其中纳入了NORC在国家动荡和破坏早期时期的基线测量，以及基于NORC一般社会调查的最近更正常时期的基线测量。使用NORC的基于概率的ameriSak Panel®，对2000名具有全国代表性的成年人进行了立即访谈，然后在接下来的几个月里再次进行了两次访谈。比较分析还确定了美国不同地区的经验和结果如何，以及美国的经验与其他国家的经验相比如何。这一奖项反映了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。

This project examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on American society through a survey of adults who will have been surveyed before, during, and after the pandemic. The study measures pandemic-related health experiences including knowledge, behaviors, and experiences (e.g. exposure, contagion, testing), the economic impacts of the pandemic containment measures, and the social and psychological changes related to stress, anxiety, and psychological well-being that have occurred. It analyzes the degree to which the social and psychological outcomes are related directly to the pandemic’s health impacts and to the extent which these are affected through the pandemic’s disruption of the economy. Then, in turn it studies how the levels of stress as well as social and psychological well-being affect health-related behaviors and health outcomes. This knowledge helps inform, and possibly improves, efforts to mitigate the disruptions of the current pandemic and leads to the development of better programs and responses to future pandemics.These research goals are achieved through a longitudinal and comparative design incorporating baseline measurements from both NORC studies during earlier periods of national turmoil and disruption and from recent, more normal times based on NORC’s General Social Survey. Using NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel®, a nationally representative sample of 2,000 adults are interviewed immediately and then re-interviewed twice in following months. The comparative analysis also determines how experiences and outcomes vary across areas in the United States and how experiences in the US compare to those in other countries.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.