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Coping with Disaster: General Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Impact of the Canterbury Earthquakes

Aim – To explore the challenges for general practitioners (GPs) following the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes and describe how these were met. Methods – Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with eight GPs from the Christchurch area exploring their experiences. Results – The interviews...

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Autores principales: Johal, Sarb, Mounsey, Zoe, Tuohy, Robyn, Johnston, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24707446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.dis.cf4c8fa61b9f4535b878c48eca87ed5d
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description Aim – To explore the challenges for general practitioners (GPs) following the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes and describe how these were met. Methods – Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with eight GPs from the Christchurch area exploring their experiences. Results – The interviews revealed that the GPs faced a range of challenges both in the immediate aftermath of the earthquakes and in the following months. These included dealing with an increased and changed workload, and managing personal concerns. The GPs reflected on their coping behaviour and how their professional practice had changed as a result. Conclusions – All GPs reported significant increases in workload raising questions about the need for coordination of locum support. GPs often found themselves working outside their area of accustomed expertise especially in relation to patients needing financial aid. GPs identified a number of coping behaviours though some only in hindsight. Greater awareness of self-care strategies would benefit GPs responding to disasters.
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spelling pubmed-39737402014-04-03 Coping with Disaster: General Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Impact of the Canterbury Earthquakes Johal, Sarb Mounsey, Zoe Tuohy, Robyn Johnston, David PLoS Curr Research Article Aim – To explore the challenges for general practitioners (GPs) following the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes and describe how these were met. Methods – Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with eight GPs from the Christchurch area exploring their experiences. Results – The interviews revealed that the GPs faced a range of challenges both in the immediate aftermath of the earthquakes and in the following months. These included dealing with an increased and changed workload, and managing personal concerns. The GPs reflected on their coping behaviour and how their professional practice had changed as a result. Conclusions – All GPs reported significant increases in workload raising questions about the need for coordination of locum support. GPs often found themselves working outside their area of accustomed expertise especially in relation to patients needing financial aid. GPs identified a number of coping behaviours though some only in hindsight. Greater awareness of self-care strategies would benefit GPs responding to disasters. Public Library of Science 2014-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3973740/ /pubmed/24707446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.dis.cf4c8fa61b9f4535b878c48eca87ed5d Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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