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Integrating psychosocial variables and societal diversity in epidemic models for predicting COVID-19 transmission dynamics

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, governments must make decisions based on a variety of information including estimations of infection spread, health care capacity, economic and psychosocial considerations. The disparate validity of current short-term forecasts of these factors is a major challe...

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Autores principales: Jirsa, Viktor K., Petkoski, Spase, Wang, Huifang, Woodman, Marmaduke, Fousek, Jan, Betsch, Cornelia, Felgendreff, Lisa, Bohm, Robert, Lilleholt, Lau, Zettler, Ingo, Faber, Sarah, Shen, Kelly, Mcintosh, Anthony Randal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000098
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author Jirsa, Viktor K.
Petkoski, Spase
Wang, Huifang
Woodman, Marmaduke
Fousek, Jan
Betsch, Cornelia
Felgendreff, Lisa
Bohm, Robert
Lilleholt, Lau
Zettler, Ingo
Faber, Sarah
Shen, Kelly
Mcintosh, Anthony Randal
author_facet Jirsa, Viktor K.
Petkoski, Spase
Wang, Huifang
Woodman, Marmaduke
Fousek, Jan
Betsch, Cornelia
Felgendreff, Lisa
Bohm, Robert
Lilleholt, Lau
Zettler, Ingo
Faber, Sarah
Shen, Kelly
Mcintosh, Anthony Randal
author_sort Jirsa, Viktor K.
collection PubMed
description During the current COVID-19 pandemic, governments must make decisions based on a variety of information including estimations of infection spread, health care capacity, economic and psychosocial considerations. The disparate validity of current short-term forecasts of these factors is a major challenge to governments. By causally linking an established epidemiological spread model with dynamically evolving psychosocial variables, using Bayesian inference we estimate the strength and direction of these interactions for German and Danish data of disease spread, human mobility, and psychosocial factors based on the serial cross-sectional COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO; N = 16,981). We demonstrate that the strength of cumulative influence of psychosocial variables on infection rates is of a similar magnitude as the influence of physical distancing. We further show that the efficacy of political interventions to contain the disease strongly depends on societal diversity, in particular group-specific sensitivity to affective risk perception. As a consequence, the model may assist in quantifying the effect and timing of interventions, forecasting future scenarios, and differentiating the impact on diverse groups as a function of their societal organization. Importantly, the careful handling of societal factors, including support to the more vulnerable groups, adds another direct instrument to the battery of political interventions fighting epidemic spread.
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spelling pubmed-99312952023-02-16 Integrating psychosocial variables and societal diversity in epidemic models for predicting COVID-19 transmission dynamics Jirsa, Viktor K. Petkoski, Spase Wang, Huifang Woodman, Marmaduke Fousek, Jan Betsch, Cornelia Felgendreff, Lisa Bohm, Robert Lilleholt, Lau Zettler, Ingo Faber, Sarah Shen, Kelly Mcintosh, Anthony Randal PLOS Digit Health Research Article During the current COVID-19 pandemic, governments must make decisions based on a variety of information including estimations of infection spread, health care capacity, economic and psychosocial considerations. The disparate validity of current short-term forecasts of these factors is a major challenge to governments. By causally linking an established epidemiological spread model with dynamically evolving psychosocial variables, using Bayesian inference we estimate the strength and direction of these interactions for German and Danish data of disease spread, human mobility, and psychosocial factors based on the serial cross-sectional COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO; N = 16,981). We demonstrate that the strength of cumulative influence of psychosocial variables on infection rates is of a similar magnitude as the influence of physical distancing. We further show that the efficacy of political interventions to contain the disease strongly depends on societal diversity, in particular group-specific sensitivity to affective risk perception. As a consequence, the model may assist in quantifying the effect and timing of interventions, forecasting future scenarios, and differentiating the impact on diverse groups as a function of their societal organization. Importantly, the careful handling of societal factors, including support to the more vulnerable groups, adds another direct instrument to the battery of political interventions fighting epidemic spread. Public Library of Science 2022-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9931295/ /pubmed/36812584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000098 Text en © 2022 Jirsa et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Petkoski, Spase
Wang, Huifang
Woodman, Marmaduke
Fousek, Jan
Betsch, Cornelia
Felgendreff, Lisa
Bohm, Robert
Lilleholt, Lau
Zettler, Ingo
Faber, Sarah
Shen, Kelly
Mcintosh, Anthony Randal
Integrating psychosocial variables and societal diversity in epidemic models for predicting COVID-19 transmission dynamics
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title_fullStr Integrating psychosocial variables and societal diversity in epidemic models for predicting COVID-19 transmission dynamics
title_full_unstemmed Integrating psychosocial variables and societal diversity in epidemic models for predicting COVID-19 transmission dynamics
title_short Integrating psychosocial variables and societal diversity in epidemic models for predicting COVID-19 transmission dynamics
title_sort integrating psychosocial variables and societal diversity in epidemic models for predicting covid-19 transmission dynamics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000098
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