Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
BMJ Open. 2021 Mar 11;11(3):e046127. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046127.
In the context of a highly contagious virus with only recently approved vaccines and no cure, the key to slowing the spread of the COVID-19 disease and successfully transitioning through the phases of the pandemic, including vaccine uptake, is public adherence to rapidly evolving behaviour-based public health policies. The overall objective of the iCARE Study is to assess public awareness, attitudes, concerns and behavioural responses to COVID-19 public health policies, and their impacts, on people around the world and to link behavioural survey data with policy, mobility and case data to provide behavioural science, data-driven recommendations to governments on how to optimise current policy strategies to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The iCARE study (www.icarestudy.com) uses a multiple cross-sectional survey design to capture self-reported information on a variety of COVID-19 related variables from individuals around the globe. Survey data are captured using two data capture methods: convenience and representative sampling. These data are then linked to open access data for policies, cases and population movement.
The primary ethical approval was obtained from the coordinating site, the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (REB#: 2020-2099/03-25-2020). This study will provide high-quality, accelerated and real-time evidence to help us understand the effectiveness of evolving country-level policies and communication strategies to reduce the spread of the COVID-19. Due to the urgency of the pandemic, results will be disseminated in a variety of ways, including policy briefs, social media posts, press releases and through regular scientific methods.
在一种具有高度传染性的病毒环境下，疫苗刚刚获得批准，尚无治愈方法，因此，减缓 COVID-19 疾病传播并成功过渡到大流行的各个阶段（包括疫苗接种）的关键是公众遵守不断演变的基于行为的公共卫生政策。iCARE 研究的总体目标是评估全球公众对 COVID-19 公共卫生政策的认识、态度、关注和行为反应，以及这些政策对人们的影响，并将行为调查数据与政策、流动和病例数据联系起来，为政府提供行为科学数据驱动的建议，以优化当前的政策策略，减轻 COVID-19 大流行的影响。
iCARE 研究（www.icarestudy.com）采用多项横断面调查设计，从全球各地的个人中捕获与 COVID-19 相关的各种变量的自我报告信息。使用两种数据捕获方法来捕获调查数据：便利抽样和代表性抽样。然后将这些数据与开放获取的数据（政策、病例和人口流动数据）相关联。
主要伦理批准来自协调站点，即蒙特利尔岛北岸综合大学健康与社会服务中心（REB#：2020-2099/03-25-2020）。本研究将提供高质量、快速和实时的证据，以帮助我们了解不断演变的国家层面政策和沟通策略的有效性，以减少 COVID-19 的传播。由于大流行的紧迫性，结果将通过多种方式传播，包括政策简报、社交媒体帖子、新闻稿，并通过定期的科学方法。
