Instructional Interventions for Improving COVID-19 Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT in India

Autor: Sara J. Yen, Prashant Loyalka, Vafa Bayat, Robert W. Fairlie, Dinsha Mistree, Jamsheed Mistri, Ashutosh Bhuradia, Amar Karoshi, Manyu Angrish, Jason Lin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Health Knowledge
Attitudes
Practice
Health (social science)
Adolescent
Economics
Randomized controlled trials (RCT)
Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities
Psychological intervention
Behavioral interventions
India
Medical and Health Sciences
Article
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
History and Philosophy of Science
Randomized controlled trial
law
Clinical Research
Intervention (counseling)
Behavioral and Social Science
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
Health beliefs
Pediatric
Medical education
Practice
Health economics
SARS-CoV-2
030503 health policy & services
Health Knowledge
Prevention
COVID-19
Test (assessment)
Comprehension
Studies in Human Society
Health education
Scale (social sciences)
Attitudes
Randomized controlled trials
Public Health
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Mind and Body
Zdroj: Social Science & Medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
0277-9536
Popis: Seeking ways to encourage broad compliance with health guidelines during the pandemic, especially among youth, we test two hypotheses pertaining to the optimal design of instructional interventions for improving COVID-19-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. We randomly assigned 8,376 lower-middle income youth in urban India to three treatments: a concentrated and targeted fact-based, instructional intervention; a longer instructional intervention that provided the same facts along with underlying scientific concepts; and a control. Relative to existing efforts, we find that both instructional interventions increased COVID-19-related knowledge immediately after intervention. Relative to the shorter fact-based intervention, the longer intervention resulted in sustained improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behavior. Instead of reducing attention and comprehension by youth, the longer scientific based treatment appears to have increased understanding and retention of the material. The findings are instrumental to understanding the design of instruction and communication in affecting compliance during this and future pandemics.
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