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

RAPID：环境如何塑造对 COVID-19 反应的比较研究

• 批准号: 2027598
• 负责人: Wesley Shrum
• 金额: $ 10.02万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027598&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Comparative; Study; How; Context

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.

这项合作快速研究项目的主要目标是进一步了解我们对文化和政治背景如何塑造人们对Covid-19的大流行方式的塑造方式。研究团队将在多个城市和农村地区进行400次访谈，以分析以了解个人如何构建和修改他们从各种来源的信息以及与朋友和家人互动网络的信息进行构建和修改感知。该项目的结果将对在文化和政治上不同背景下对公共政策反应的看法和行为的社会机制有更深入的了解。对疾病的看法（即，感知的严重性，易感性和威胁）形成了感知的障碍和行动的益处，进而影响行为。尽管这些看法对于了解与健康相关的行为以及对各种疗法和行动的支持很重要，但了解如何产生这些看法至关重要。项目访谈和分析将得到广泛的分配，以为政策制定者和其他寻求了解恐惧，风险感知，准备和可接受的行动的多样性的政策制定者提供基础。研究团队将对选定的群体收集对大流行过程的重要性的定性和定量数据（信息和感染性镇定者的传播和处理）。这些小组分为五个类别：科学家，医学专业人员，教师，非正式部门和失业者。访谈的目的是确定有关COVID-19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，职业以及农村/城市地区的相对重要性相关的因素；研究以绝对和相对术语来影响来源可信度的因素；并评估COVID-19传播，治疗和风险的知识和准备水平。它们将用于确定与当前治疗，隔离和遏制技术有关的主要恐惧和关注。该项目的结果将有助于理解不同的文化和政治环境对爆发信息和指令的反应，他们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共同资助，由科学和技术研究计划，以及既定的计划，以及既定的竞争性研究（EPSSCOR）的既定信息（EPSST）。更广泛的影响审查标准。