Integrating Operant and Cognitive Behavioral Economics to Inform Infectious Disease Response: Prevention, Testing, and Vaccination in the COVID-19 Pandemic
| العنوان: | Integrating Operant and Cognitive Behavioral Economics to Inform Infectious Disease Response: Prevention, Testing, and Vaccination in the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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| المؤلفون: | Justin C. Strickland, Derek D. Reed, Steven R. Hursh, Lindsay P. Schwartz, Rachel N.S. Foster, Brett W. Gelino, Robert S. LeComte, Fernanda S. Oda, Allyson R. Salzer, Tadd D. Schneider, Lauren Dayton, Carl Latkin, Matthew W. Johnson |
| المصدر: | medRxiv article-version (status) pre article-version (number) 2 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, public policy, Health Behavior, Physical Distancing, Applied psychology, Behavioural sciences, behavioral economics, Behavioral economics, Article, Young Adult, COVID-19 Testing, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, Pandemics, Discounting, discounting, SARS-CoV-2, Social distance, Public health, Vaccination, Masks, COVID-19, Flexibility (personality), Cognition, demand, Middle Aged, Framing (social sciences), Female, Psychology |
| الوصف: | The role of human behavior to thwart transmission of infectious diseases like COVID-19 is evident. Psychological and behavioral science are key areas to understand decision-making processes underlying engagement in preventive health behaviors. Here we adapt well validated methods from behavioral economic discounting and demand frameworks to evaluate variables (e.g., delay, cost, probability) known to impact health behavior engagement. We examine the contribution of these mechanisms within a broader response class of behaviors reflecting adherence to public health recommendations made during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four crowdsourced samples (total N = 1,366) completed individual experiments probing a response class including social (physical) distancing, facemask wearing, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 vaccination. We also measure the extent to which choice architecture manipulations (e.g., framing, opt-in/opt-out) may promote (or discourage) behavior engagement. We find that people are more likely to socially distance when specified activities are framed as high risk, that facemask use during social interaction decreases systematically with greater social relationship, that describing delay until testing (rather than delay until results) increases testing likelihood, and that framing vaccine safety in a positive valence improves vaccine acceptance. These findings collectively emphasize the flexibility of methods from diverse areas of behavioral science for informing public health crisis management. |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::50b069db60b24d45e39648006cf51cd7 https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.20.21250195 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....50b069db60b24d45e39648006cf51cd7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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