Hyperbolic modeling and assessment of hypothetical health behaviors during a viral outbreak using crowdsourced samples.

Autor: Rzeszutek MJ; Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA., DeFulio A; Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA., Brown HD; Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA., Cardoso São Mateus C; Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior [J Exp Anal Behav] 2023 Mar; Vol. 119 (2), pp. 300-323. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 20.
DOI: 10.1002/jeab.824
Abstrakt: The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to investigate factors related to public response to public health measures, which could help better prepare implementation of similar measures for inevitable future pandemics. To understand individual and environmental factors that influence likelihood in engaging in personal and public health measures, three crowdsourced convenience samples from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) completed likelihood-discounting tasks of engaging in health behaviors given a variety of hypothetical viral outbreak scenarios. Experiment 1 assessed likelihood of mask wearing for a novel virus. Experiment 2 assessed vaccination likelihood based on efficacy and cost. Experiment 3 assessed likelihood of seeking health care based on number of symptoms and cost of treatment. Volume-based measures and three-dimensional modeling were used to analyze hypothetical decision making. Hypothetical public and personal health participation increased as viral fatality increased and generally followed a hyperbolic function. Public health participation was moderated by political orientation and trust in science, whereas treatment-seeking was only moderated by income. Analytic methods used in this cross-sectional study predicted population-level outcomes that occurred later in the pandemic and can be extended to various health behaviors.
(© 2023 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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