The Fix-it face-to-face intervention increases multihazard household preparedness cross-culturally

Joffe, Hélène; Potts, Henry W W; Rossetto, Tiziana; Doğulu, Canay; Gul, Ervin; Pérez-Fuentes, Gabriela

doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0563-0

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“…Besides having implications for mental health research and practice, our findings could also be useful for earthquake preparedness interventions because they provide detailed insight into how people may act, think, and feel during an earthquake (Joffe et al, 2019). They further highlight the role that members of the public can play in emergency response.…”

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Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors During Disaster

2020

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Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors during traumatic events, that is, peritraumatic reactions, are key to post-trauma psychopathology development. Qualitative research is required to investigate whether existing quantitative methods capture the range and complexity of peritraumatic reactions as described by survivors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 104 earthquake survivors. Participants reported experiencing various peritraumatic reactions ( M = 21, range = 6–43). The survivors’ accounts confirmed presence and overall phenomenological characteristics of commonly studied peritraumatic reactions such as dissociation, distress, mental defeat, and immobility. In addition, novel and understudied reactions were identified: cognitive overload, hyperfocus, and emotion regulation, as well as positive affect. Finally, a number of cross-cutting phenomena were identified such as the social nature of many reactions and survivors evaluating their reactions as difficult to put into words. These findings have implications for the conceptualization of peritraumatic reactions, for trauma-focused psychotherapeutic interventions, and for the wellbeing of disaster survivors.

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“…A cross-cultural evaluation of the intervention highlights the need to consider routinised individual behaviors within the wider social environment (181). Specifically, collective efficacythe perception of one's community's ability to prepare for a hazard-had a greater on individual preparedness in Turkey relative the USA, where a greater emphasis is placed impact upon individual efficacy (181). In addition, highlighting the need to contextualize individual behavior in the socio-political environment, they suggest robust legislation sets important social norms for behavior and locating individual notions of responsibility (181).…”

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A Call to Action. A Critical Review of Mental Health Related Anti-stigma Campaigns

Walsh

Foster

2021

Front. Public Health

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Using a knowledge-attitudes-behavior practice (KABP) paradigm, professionals have focused on educating the public in biomedical explanations of mental illness. Especially in high-income countries, it is now common for education-based campaigns to also include some form of social contact and to be tailored to key groups. However, and despite over 20 years of high-profile national campaigns (e.g., Time to Change in England; Beyond Blue in Australia), examinations suggest that the public continue to Other those with experiences of mental ill-health. Furthermore, evaluations of anti-stigma programs are found to have weak- to no significant long-term effects, and serious concerns have been raised over their possible unintended consequences. Accordingly, this article critically re-engages with the literature. We evidence that there have been systematic issues in problem conceptualization. Namely, the KABP paradigm does not respond to the multiple forms of knowledge embodied in every life, often outside conscious awareness. Furthermore, we highlight how a singular focus on addressing the public's perceived deficits in professionalized forms of knowledge has sustained public practices which divide between “us” and “them.” In addition, we show that practitioners have not fully appreciated the social processes which Other individuals with experiences of mental illness, nor how these processes motivate the public to maintain distance from those perceived to embody this devalued form of social identity. Lastly, we suggest methodological tools which would allow public health professionals to fully explore these identity-related social processes. Whilst some readers may be frustrated by the lack of clear solutions provided in this paper, given the serious unintended consequences of anti-stigma campaigns, we caution against making simplified statements on how to correct public health campaigns. Instead, this review should be seen as a call to action. We hope that by fully exploring these processes, we can develop new interventions rooted in the ways the public make sense of mental health and illness.

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“…Nothing can be done to prevent earthquakes from occurring; however, there are many precautions that people can take to reduce and minimize their harmful effects (Becker, Paton, Johnston, & Ronan, ; Lindell, Arlikatti, & Prater, ; Lindell & Whitney, ; Lim & Nakazato, ). Although the importance of earthquake preparedness has been widely advocated by both researchers and policymakers, many studies have provided evidence of people's tendency to underprepare, especially in the pre‐disaster phase (Becker et al, ; Joffe et al, ; Lindell & Perry, ; Onuma, Kong, & Managi, ; Sutton & Tierney, ). Without a doubt, a sound understanding of the cultural, social and psychological aspects of public disaster preparedness is crucial for earthquake disaster risk reduction (EDRR).…”

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Does non‐destructive earthquake experience affect risk perception and motivate preparedness?

Sun

Xue

2020

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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There are thousands of earthquakes every year, but most of them are small and are not disasters. This study explored whether non‐destructive earthquake experience affects public risk perception and motivates preparedness. The study respondents were from the Jiaodong Peninsula, China, where more than 20 small earthquakes have occurred during the past decade. The results show that non‐destructive earthquake experience positively affected public perception of the probability of an earthquake but not the perception of consequences. The relationship between non‐destructive earthquake experience and preparedness intention was not statistically significant. In addition, this study revealed that the perception of consequences was a positive predictor of earthquake preparedness intention, that is people with higher levels of perceived consequences of an earthquake were more likely to be motivated to prepare. However, non‐destructive earthquake experience moderated this relationship, that is weakened the strength of this relationship between perceived consequences and skill preparedness intention. These findings permit the identification of potential pathways to increase levels of disaster preparedness and potential barriers to enhancing disaster resilience in regions experiencing small hazards.

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The Fix-it face-to-face intervention increases multihazard household preparedness cross-culturally

Cited by 34 publications

References 53 publications

Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors During Disaster

Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors During Disaster

A Call to Action. A Critical Review of Mental Health Related Anti-stigma Campaigns

Does non‐destructive earthquake experience affect risk perception and motivate preparedness?

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