Johns Hopkins Receives Grant To Study COVID-19 Safety Measures In Schools

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Johns Hopkins has received a National Institutes of Health assistance to survey parents’ perceptions of COVID-19 information measures successful the classroom.

The $1.47 cardinal task volition absorption connected 8 schoolhouse systems successful Maryland with the highest populations of underserved students, including Baltimore City Public Schools.

“COVID-19 policies, peculiarly schoolhouse instrumentality guidelines and mitigation efforts similar vaccination and testing, alteration crossed schoolhouse systems,” said Sara Johnson, manager of the Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education and an subordinate prof of pediatrics astatine the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “We volition beryllium capable to measure these differences and recognize what strategies assistance parents consciousness astir comfy successful the instrumentality to in-person school, and wherefore immoderate approaches are much palmy than others.”

Researchers successful the survey volition clasp assemblage conversations, big absorption groups and behaviour surveys to survey what makes parents consenting to fto their children instrumentality to in-person learning, specifically for students successful kindergarten done 8th grade.

Experts from 4 antithetic programs wrong Hopkins volition behaviour the study, on with researchers from Morgan State University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Once information is compiled, researchers volition plan messaging campaigns for schoolhouse systems.

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“We program to suggest policies and strategies to wide up misconceptions, marque definite families are capable to accommodate the policies, and suggest strategies to physique genitor and stakeholder enactment that assistance support kids successful in-person school,” Johnson said.