RAPID: American Indian Authorities, Trust, and Collective Action during the Covid-19 Pandemic

该项目将确定公民如何应对和利用来自不同来源的公共卫生政策信息，以告知他们应对COVID-19大流行的个人决定。该项目将提供系统和严格的证据，说明公民对信任和合法性的看法如何以及为何决定他们对当局关于公共卫生政策的不同信息来源的反应。该项目的结果将有助于提高对公共和私营部门如何通过提供有关公共卫生政策的信息与公民和社区建立信任的理解，以应对COVID-19和未来的公共卫生危机。该研究将使用多波，农村调查实验-基于国家和选定的州人口样本，以检查哪些信息来源提供了公共卫生政策的指导方针，被公民认为是可信和合法的。反过来，这些评估将被审查，以确定它们如何影响个人对遵守封锁令和疫苗使用的选择。该项目的研究结果将推动对集体行动的原因、公众对科学信息和专门知识的反应和使用、改善公共卫生政策的社会决定因素、该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估来支持。影响审查标准。

This project will determine how citizens react to and utilize information from different sources on public health policies to inform their individual decisions on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will provide systematic and rigorous evidence on how and why citizens’ perceptions of trust and legitimacy condition their response to different sources of information from authorities on public health policies. The results of this project will contribute to improving the understanding of how public and private authorities can build trust with citizens and communities through the information they provide on public health policies to combat COVID-19 and future public health crises.The research will use multi-wave, survey experiments on rural-based national and select state populations samples to examine which sources of information providing guidelines on public health policies are deemed trustworthy and legitimate by citizens. Those evaluations in turn will be examined to determine how they influence individual choices about compliance with lockdown orders and the use of vaccines when they become available. The findings of the project will advance basic research on the causes of collective action, the public’s reaction to and use of scientific information and expertise, the social determinants of improving public health policies, and the efficacy of different information strategies in times of crisis.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.