Journal article
Disaster Preparedness in Rural Families of Children With Special Health Care Needs
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, Vol.10(2), pp.225-232
04/2016
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.159
PMID: 26794934
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to describe disaster preparedness strategies and behaviors among rural families who have children with special health care needs and to examine the effect of self-efficacy and response-efficacy on disaster preparedness.
Data for this study were drawn from the baseline surveys of 287 rural families with children with special health care needs who were part of a randomized controlled trial examining the impact of an intervention on disaster preparedness. Distributions of child, parent, and family characteristics were examined by preparedness. Linear regression models were built to examine the impact of self-efficacy and response-efficacy on level of disaster preparedness.
Disaster preparedness (overall, emergency plan, discussion/practice, and supplies) was low (40.9-69.7%) among study families. Disaster preparedness was found to increase with each unit increase in the level of self-efficacy and family resilience sources across all 4 categories of preparedness.
Disaster preparedness among rural families with children with special health care needs is low, which is concerning because these children may have increased vulnerability to adverse outcomes compared to the general population. Results suggest that increasing the levels of self-efficacy and family resilience sources may increase disaster preparedness.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Disaster Preparedness in Rural Families of Children With Special Health Care Needs
- Creators
- Cara J Hamann - 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Injury Prevention Research Center,University of Iowa,Iowa City,IowaElizabeth Mello - 2Department of Epidemiology and Injury Prevention Research Center,The University of Iowa,Iowa City,IowaHongqian Wu - 3Department of Biostatistics and Injury Prevention Research Center,University of Iowa,Iowa City,IowaJingzhen Yang - 4Center for Injury Research and Policy,Nationwide Children's Hospital,Columbus,OhioDebra Waldron - 5Division of Services for Children with Special Healthcare Needs,Maternal and Child Health Bureau,Health Resources and Services Administration,Rockville,MarylandMarizen Ramirez - 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Injury Prevention Research Center,University of Iowa,Iowa City,Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, Vol.10(2), pp.225-232
- DOI
- 10.1017/dmp.2015.159
- PMID
- 26794934
- NLM abbreviation
- Disaster Med Public Health Prep
- ISSN
- 1935-7893
- eISSN
- 1938-744X
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2016
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9983996076202771
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