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Andrighetto G, Szekely A, Guido A, Gelfand M, Abernathy J, Arikan G, Aycan Z, Bankar S, Barrera D, Basnight-Brown D, Belaus A, Berezina E, Blumen S, Boski P, Bui HTT, Cárdenas JC, Čekrlija Đ, de Barra M, de Zoysa P, Dorrough A, Engelmann JB, Euh H, Fiedler S, Foster-Gimbel O, Freitas G, Fülöp M, Gardarsdottir RB, Gill CMHD, Glöckner A, Graf S, Grigoryan A, Growiec K, Hashimoto H, Hopthrow T, Hřebíčková M, Imada H, Kamijo Y, Kapoor H, Kashima Y, Khachatryan N, Kharchenko N, León D, Leslie LM, Li Y, Liik K, Liuzza MT, Maitner AT, Mamidi P, McArdle M, Medhioub I, Teixeira MLM, Mentser S, Morales F, Narayanan J, Nitta K, Nussinson R, Onyedire NG, Onyishi IE, Osin E, Özden S, Panagiotopoulou P, Pereverziev O, Perez-Floriano LR, Pirttilä-Backman AM, Pogosyan M, Raver J, Reyna C, Rodrigues RB, Romanò S, Romero PP, Sakki I, Sánchez A, Sherbaji S, Simpson B, Spadoni L, Stamkou E, Travaglino GA, Van Lange PAM, Winata FF, Zein RA, Zhang QP, Eriksson K. Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1436. [PMID: 38365869 PMCID: PMC10873354 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44999-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/18/2024] Open
Abstract
The emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which societies generally have strong norms), specific social norms (e.g. stealing, hand washing), and norms about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 countries recorded before and in the early stages following the emergence of COVID-19. Using variation in disease intensity, we shed light on the mechanisms predicting changes in social norm measures. We find evidence that, after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, hand washing norms increased while tightness and punishing frequency slightly decreased but observe no evidence for a robust change in most other norms. Thus, at least in the short term, our findings suggest that cultures are largely stable to pandemic threats except in those norms, hand washing in this case, that are perceived to be directly relevant to dealing with the collective threat.
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Grants
- 2016.0167. Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation)
- 20178TRM3F Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (Ministry of Education, University and Research)
- 019.183SG.001 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (Ministry of Education, University and Research)
- Czech Science Foundation, 20-01214S Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, RVO: 68081740 Grant 23-061770S of the Czech Science Foundation RVO: 68081740 of the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Shimabara Science Promotion Foundation
- RA Science Committee, research project N.20TTSH-020
- Open University of Israel, 511687
- HSE University Basic Research Program
- US Army Research Office Grant W911NF-19-1-910281
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 019.183SG.001 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, VI.Veni.201G.013 European Commission, Horizon 2020-ID 870827
- UKRI Grant “Secret Power” No. EP/X02170X/1 awarded under the European Commission’s “European Research Council - STG” Scheme
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Affiliation(s)
- Giulia Andrighetto
- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
- Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
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- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
- Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy
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- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
- Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
- CEREN EA 7477, Burgundy School of Business, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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- Graduate School of Business and Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
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- Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
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- Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Faculty of Management, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy
- Department of Culture, Politics, and Society, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIPsi), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); CABA, Córdoba, Argentina
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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- Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
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- Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA
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- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Institute of Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED), Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA
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- Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
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- Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- HUN-REN Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre of Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Institute of Psychology, Karoli Gáspár University of the Reformed Churches, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Personality Psychology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
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- School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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- Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Personality Psychology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, USA
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- Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Græcia" University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Finance and Investment, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel
- Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making (IIPDM), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
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- Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Leadership and Management, Amsterdam Business School (ABS), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIPsi), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); CABA, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Culture, Politics, and Society, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- School of Economics, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
- Experimental and Computational Economics Lab (ECEL), Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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- Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC), Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
- Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
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- Department of Economics and Law, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino (FR), Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Malardalens University, Vasteras, Sweden
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Kataria I, Siddiqui M, Treiman K, Foley S, Anand M, Biswas S, Shastri D, Bhatla N, Radhakrishnan D, Mamidi P, Sankaranarayanan R. Awareness, perceptions, and choices of physicians pertaining to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in India: A formative research study. Vaccine X 2022; 12:100228. [PMID: 36317080 PMCID: PMC9617192 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2022.100228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Introduction India accounts for one-fifth of the global burden of cervical cancer cases and mortality. A safe and effective vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections, the primary cause of cervical malignancies, is available in India but multiple barriers lead to its low uptake in the country. Physicians are a key stakeholder and communicator in the Indian health system and have the potential to increase HPV vaccine uptake. Objective We undertook formative research to understand awareness, perceptions and choices of physicians when recommending the HPV vaccine to parents of adolescent girls. Methods We conducted in-depth interviews with 32 physicians in two districts of West Bengal. Data collection was carried out between July and August 2019. The data was transcribed, coded, and analyzed using NVivo software using the thematic analysis technique. Results Our findings suggest that while physicians are generally aware about the burden of cervical cancer and its prevention by HPV vaccination, they face several barriers to recommending the HPV vaccine routinely and strongly. These include the lack of national-level guidance on the age eligibility and dosage, lack of practice-level opportunities such as well or non-sick visits and other routine adolescent vaccines, practice-level barriers like out-of-pocket cost and vaccine availability, and perceived parental hesitancy arising from reluctance to discuss cervical cancer, its prevention, and HPV vaccination. Conclusions Physicians in our study exhibited hesitancy when recommending the HPV vaccine. They also faced logistical barriers. It is important that the barriers pertaining to when and how physicians recommend the vaccine be tackled through further education, policy change, and development and implementation of interventions that are evidenced-based.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ishu Kataria
- Center for Global Noncommunicable Diseases, RTI International, New Delhi, India
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- American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, United States,Corresponding author.
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- American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Centre for Social & Behaviour Change, Ashoka University, New Delhi, India
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Duch R, Roope LSJ, Violato M, Fuentes Becerra M, Robinson TS, Bonnefon JF, Friedman J, Loewen PJ, Mamidi P, Melegaro A, Blanco M, Vargas J, Seither J, Candio P, Gibertoni Cruz A, Hua X, Barnett A, Clarke PM. Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2026382118. [PMID: 34526400 DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.31.21250866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
Abstract
How does the public want a COVID-19 vaccine to be allocated? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 15,536 adults in 13 countries to evaluate 248,576 profiles of potential vaccine recipients who varied randomly on five attributes. Our sample includes diverse countries from all continents. The results suggest that in addition to giving priority to health workers and to those at high risk, the public favors giving priority to a broad range of key workers and to those with lower income. These preferences are similar across respondents of different education levels, incomes, and political ideologies, as well as across most surveyed countries. The public favored COVID-19 vaccines being allocated solely via government programs but were highly polarized in some developed countries on whether taking a vaccine should be mandatory. There is a consensus among the public on many aspects of COVID-19 vaccination, which needs to be taken into account when developing and communicating rollout strategies.
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- Raymond Duch
- Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1NF, United Kingdom;
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- Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, Durham DH1 3TU, United Kingdom
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- Toulouse School of Economics, CNRS, Université Toulouse Capitole, 31000 Toulouse, France
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- Facultad de Administracion y Economia, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 9170022, Chile
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- Department of Political Science, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S1A4, Canada
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- Center for Social and Behavioral Change, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana 131029, India
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- Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policies, Department of Social and Political Science, Bocconi University, 20136 Milan, Italy
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- Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá 111711, D.C. Colombia
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- Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá 111711, D.C. Colombia
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- Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá 111711, D.C. Colombia
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- National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
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- Centre For Health Policy, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
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- Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
- Centre For Health Policy, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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