Self-care strategies used by disaster responders after the 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria: a mixed methods study.

IF 2.3 3区 医学 Q1 EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Karin Blomberg, Jason Murphy, Karin Hugelius
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Abstract

Background: Disaster responders are exposed to several physical and mental health risks. This study aimed to describe self-care strategies used by disaster responders after the earthquake in Syria and eastern Turkey in February 2023.

Methods: A study specific web-based questionnaire survey was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data according to a convergent mixed methods approach. Data from 252 disaster responders responding to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria were analyzed using both descriptive and analytical statistics and summative content analysis of free-text answers. Data were collected in March to July, 2023.

Results: The most used self-care strategies included resting, social support from colleagues in the field, extra intake of food or drink, and intake of medicines. The recovery strategies varied due to previous disaster response experience, indicating that supportive self-care strategies can be developed or learned.

Conclusion: Given the extreme conditions and limited possibilities of external support, sufficient self-care is an essential competence among disaster responders. Self-care strategies can be both external processed such as intake of medicines, social support from others, and internal processes such as personal reflection. Providing oneself with self-care activities seems to be a skill developed with increasing experience supported by pre-deployment training. Therefore, to enhance resilience, self-care strategies should be encompassed in pre-disaster response training.

2023 年土耳其和叙利亚地震后救灾人员使用的自我护理策略:一项混合方法研究。
背景:救灾人员面临多种身心健康风险。本研究旨在描述 2023 年 2 月叙利亚和土耳其东部发生地震后救灾人员使用的自我保健策略:方法:本研究采用聚合混合方法,通过特定的网络问卷调查收集定量和定性数据。通过描述性和分析性统计以及对自由文本答案的总结性内容分析,对土耳其和叙利亚地震中的 252 名救灾人员的数据进行了分析。数据收集时间为 2023 年 3 月至 7 月:最常用的自我保健策略包括休息、来自现场同事的社会支持、额外摄入食物或饮料以及服用药物。恢复策略因之前的救灾经验而异,这表明支持性自我护理策略是可以开发或学习的:结论:在极端条件和有限的外部支持下,充分的自我护理是救灾人员的一项基本能力。自我护理策略既可以是药物摄入、他人社会支持等外部过程,也可以是个人反思等内部过程。在部署前培训的支持下,开展自我护理活动似乎是一种随着经验增加而发展起来的技能。因此,为了提高抗灾能力,应将自我护理策略纳入灾前应对培训。
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BMC Emergency Medicine
BMC Emergency Medicine Medicine-Emergency Medicine
CiteScore
3.50
自引率
8.00%
发文量
178
审稿时长
29 weeks
期刊介绍: BMC Emergency Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all urgent and emergency aspects of medicine, in both practice and basic research. In addition, the journal covers aspects of disaster medicine and medicine in special locations, such as conflict areas and military medicine, together with articles concerning healthcare services in the emergency departments.
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