RAPID: Social Factors Influencing Compliance with Quarantine and Distancing in the Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission

新冠肺炎传播带来的不确定性导致了一系列旨在控制感染传播的监管。然而，这些措施的经济和社会后果对已经生活在经济困难和健康状况不佳的脆弱家庭产生了不同程度的影响。这项研究考察了社会、经济和健康不平等如何影响家庭遵守可能是减少感染传播所必需的法规的能力。该项目将探讨短期家庭决策如何影响贫困、社会边缘和更高感染率的长期后果。该项目有助于了解在新冠肺炎背景下促进和抑制遵守法规的社会和文化因素；传播数据和调查结果，以改进遏制进程。该项目还培训研究生开展协作工作，并建立跨多个地点的学者网络，以加强对灾害管理对策的研究，并在危机期间采用研究方法。通过对新冠肺炎传播和相关遏制法规造成的极端不确定性条件下的家庭决策的多点研究，研究评估了社会经济因素在遵守社会距离和隔离要求方面所起的作用。它评估了家庭内部的不平等、医疗基础设施的变化、对污名和监督的恐惧、对社会支持的信心以及社会网络如何影响决策。来自10个不同地点的80个家庭将被选为分析对象，这些家庭的亚人口比例不同，宗教、种族和种族构成也不同。通过采用家庭而不是个人的分析单位，该项目将独特地有助于理解家庭动态以及新冠肺炎大流行病对家庭不平等的不成比例影响。多地点的研究设计对于研究理论上看起来相似的遏制模式如何在不同的社会和政治背景下转化为截然不同的实施模式将是至关重要的。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。

The uncertainty created by the spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a range of regulations designed to control the spread of infections. However, the economic and social consequences of such measures have differential impacts on vulnerable households already living in conditions of economic hardship and poor health. This research examines how social, economic, and health inequalities impact the capabilities of households to follow regulations that may be necessary to reduce the spread of infections. The project will explore how short-term household decision-making impacts long-term consequences for poverty, social marginality, and susceptibility to higher infection rates. The project contributes to understanding the social and culture factors that enable and inhibit compliance with regulations in the context of COVID-19; data and findings being disseminated to improve containment processes. This project also trains graduate students in collaborative work and in building a network of scholars across multiple sites that can strengthen research on responses to disaster management and implement research methods during periods of crises. Through a multi-site study of household decision-making under conditions of extreme uncertainty created by the spread of COVID-19 and associated containment regulations, the research assesses the role socioeconomic factors play in achieving compliance with social distancing and quarantine requirements. It evaluates how intra-household inequalities, changes in medical infrastructure, fears of stigma and surveillance, confidence in social support, and social networks influence decisions. Eighty households across ten different sites with contrasting sub-populations and differing religious, ethnic, and racial composition will be selected for analysis. By taking the unit of analysis to be the household rather than the individual, the project will uniquely contribute to the understanding of household dynamics and the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on household inequalities. The multi-site research design will be critical in investigating how models of containment which appear similar in theory might translate into very different modes of implementation in different social and political contexts.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.