Corona Virus Pandemic Disinformation
Given the extensive circulation of disinformation about COVID-19 in the media, it is crucial for public health authorities and politicians in the United States to build strategic messaging and interventions to teach the public about COVID-19 prevention, recovery, and vaccine. Immunization systems can only be competitive if they have high adoption and coverage rates.
You aim to examine the emerging vaccination adoption environment as the lead investigator and share the results with public health experts and lay audiences.
Suppose that you are interested in examining differences in demographic factors and attitude toward the acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine. Your research team has surveyed to determine if there is an association between gender and willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Analyze the data using any statistical software of your choice. (Note: significance level = 0.05)
- Report and interpret your statistical results, as well as create tables/figures in accordance with the APA guideline for professional audiences. (Note: Your report MUST contain indications of proper assumption tests for the proposed analysis, describe relevant results of descriptive statistics, and discuss conclusions from inferential statistics.)
Suppose that you are interested in investigating differences in socioeconomic factors and attitudes toward the acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine. Your research team has conducted a survey to determine if there is an association between employment status and willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Analyze the data using any statistical software of your choice. (Note: significance level = 0.05)
- Report and interpret your statistical results, as well as create tables/figures in accordance with the APA guideline for professional audiences. (Note: Your report MUST contain indications of proper assumption tests for the proposed analysis, describe relevant results of descriptive statistics, and discuss conclusions from inferential statistics.)
Overall, based upon the findings above, how do you present your findings to lay audiences (including policy-makers)?
- Present and discuss your analytical results and potential impact for the lay audiences and health policy-makers (with the supportive arguments from the scientific evidence based on the peer-reviewed literature).