Psychopathological chronic sequelae of the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy

Gigantesco, Antonella; Mirante, Nadia; Granchelli, Carla; Diodati, G; Cofini, Vincenza; Mancini, Cristiana; Carbonelli, Anna; Tarolla, Emanuele; Minardi, Valentina; Salmaso, Stefania; D’Argenio, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2012.12.006

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“…The disruption of people’s lives and their loss of certainties affect their physical and mental health in both the short term and years after the calamity [1–3]. The literature is full of papers describing the presence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [4–16] and depressive disturbances (major depression MD, other), anxiety, irritability and insomnia [3, 7, 11, 14, 16–29] and there is also an increase in the incidence chronic degenerative diseases and a worsening in pre-existing conditions [2, 10, 17, 25]. All of these factors have a negative impact on the quality of life [2, 15, 30], which is also affected by gender, age, physical injury, and damaged housing with subsequent displacement and the dissolution of social networks [10, 11, 13, 20, 24, 25, 31–33].…”

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Well-Being and Perceived Quality of Life in Elderly People Displaced After the Earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy

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On 6 April 2009, the city of L’Aquila was hit by a violent earthquake that destroyed almost all of its medieval centre, and the surviving inhabitants were evacuated and relocated in temporary quarters or undamaged homes. The aim of this study was to investigate the perceived quality of life of the elderly population 3 years after the earthquake in relation to the social and logistic issues of new housing. The study was carried out between October 2011 and March 2012, and involved 571 subjects aged over 65 years living in the municipality of L’Aquila. The interviews took place in the surgeries of general practitioners and the city’s Department of Prevention and Vaccination in the anti-influenza immunisation period. The instrument used was a 36-item questionnaire with closed, multiple choice answers divided into the following sections: demographics, everyday activities, health and perceived health, and the quality of life in the city. The results show that, 3 years after the earthquake, the elderly population living in the new towns and temporary housing of L’Aquila have a worse perception of their quality of life than the others. They feel a certain social isolation and wish to live elsewhere. Governments faced with the problems arising from a natural calamity should take into account all of the elements making up a good quality of life and, before making choices whose impact cannot be changed, consider both their immediate and long-term social consequences.

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Well-Being and Perceived Quality of Life in Elderly People Displaced After the Earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy

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“…This demonstrates that while some buildings give the impression that the development phase has been reached in L'Aquila, others continue to show characteristics of the recovery or early recovery phases. Gigantesco et al (2013) carried out telephone interviews in 2012 with a random sample of 957 adult residents of L'Aquila as part of research into the psychological sequelae of the earthquake. The authors found a prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression (MD) even 19 months after the earthquake.…”

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“…projects resettled 11,923 and 2482 displaced residents from L'Aquila, respectively. Six months after the earthquake only 25 % of the displaced inhabitants were able to return to their former homes (Gigantesco et al 2013). One year after the earthquake 5000 of the survivors who used to live in the city center were still housed in hotels, 15,000 in provisional housing, and 27,000 in rented accommodation with a government grant of between 600 and 800 Euros per month.…”

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Fuzzy Boundaries Between Post-Disaster Phases: The Case of L’Aquila, Italy

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2016

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A number of indices have been developed for measuring vulnerability to disasters, but little attention has been paid to recovery indices. Post-disaster periods are usually divided into four phases. The terms established by the United Nations Development Programme for post-disaster phases-relief, early recovery, recovery, and development-are used in this article. This research examines the hypothesis that the boundaries between post-disaster recovery phases are fuzzy and should be defined by the progress achieved in the recovery process, rather than by the amount of time elapsed since the event. The methodology employed involved four steps: fieldwork, mapping, identification of indicators, and assessment. The case study area was the city of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, which was struck by an earthquake in April 2009. For each phase of the recovery process in L'Aquila a score was calculated based on the progress observed in 2016, 7 years after the earthquake. The highest score went to the early recovery phase (14 points), followed by the recovery phase (13 points), the development phase (12 points), and the relief phase (4 points). The results demonstrate the possibility of defining post-disaster recovery phases in an affected area based on measuring achievements through indicators rather than defining recovery phases in terms of elapsed time after a disaster.

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“…Some examples are the destruction of many buildings and the corresponding loss of human life in cities such as Vrancea in 2004 [1], L'Aquila in 2009 [2,3], the Balkan region in 2010 [4] and Lorca in 2011 [5,6], highlight the poor structural performance of these buildings in earthquakes of medium magnitude.…”

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Structural Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Areas of Moderate Seismicity and Assessment of Strategies for Structural Improvement

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Abstract:Moderate magnitude seismic events have occurred during the last decade in non-seismic areas and have highlighted that many existing buildings do not sufficiently resist these types of events. The objective of this work is to illustrate that most buildings dating from 2002-2010 constructed from wide beams, which were designed to previous earthquake resistance codes, do not offer a satisfactory seismic behaviour, and to identify which structural attributes can best help alleviate this problem. In this work the effect of a real earthquake of medium magnitude (Lorca, 2011) on buildings of three, five and eight stories with unidirectional frames of wide-beam concrete was assessed. The methodology included non-linear static (pushover) analyses and dynamic response simulations with the aim to understand the effect on the seismic performance of changing some of the geometrical and material parameters. Maximum displacements and capacity curves for the top floor of a set of representative buildings were evaluated and compared. In particular, capacity curves obtained from non-linear static (pushover) analysis are compared for different building configurations, as well as the maximum displacements obtained through non-linear dynamic analysis. This paper highlights the seismic vulnerability of buildings constructed between 2002 and 2010 and the results indicate that a higher density of infill walls (walls whose bricks are not part of the main structure) is the feature that most significantly improves the seismic behaviour of the structures analysed. Moreover, counterintuitively, incorporating stronger concrete and reinforcing steel and using alternative column arrangements only have a small positive effect on the seismic behaviour of these types of buildings.

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Psychopathological chronic sequelae of the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy

Cited by 50 publications

References 49 publications

Well-Being and Perceived Quality of Life in Elderly People Displaced After the Earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy

Well-Being and Perceived Quality of Life in Elderly People Displaced After the Earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy

Fuzzy Boundaries Between Post-Disaster Phases: The Case of L’Aquila, Italy

Structural Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Areas of Moderate Seismicity and Assessment of Strategies for Structural Improvement

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