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Urban disaster preparedness of Hong Kong residents: A territory-wide survey

OBJECTIVE: To assess the state of community disaster preparedness of Hong Kong residents and to identify factors associated with adequate preparedness behaviors. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey using random Global Positioning System (GPS) spatial sampling conducted from the 8 August 2015 to 6 Septe...

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Autores principales: Lam, Rex Pui Kin, Leung, Ling Pong, Balsari, Satchit, Hsiao, Kai-hsun, Newnham, Elizabeth, Patrick, Kaylie, Pham, Phuong, Leaning, Jennifer
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Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32289012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.04.008
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author Lam, Rex Pui Kin
Leung, Ling Pong
Balsari, Satchit
Hsiao, Kai-hsun
Newnham, Elizabeth
Patrick, Kaylie
Pham, Phuong
Leaning, Jennifer
author_facet Lam, Rex Pui Kin
Leung, Ling Pong
Balsari, Satchit
Hsiao, Kai-hsun
Newnham, Elizabeth
Patrick, Kaylie
Pham, Phuong
Leaning, Jennifer
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description OBJECTIVE: To assess the state of community disaster preparedness of Hong Kong residents and to identify factors associated with adequate preparedness behaviors. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey using random Global Positioning System (GPS) spatial sampling conducted from the 8 August 2015 to 6 September 2015. PARTICIPANTS: Hong Kong residents aged 18 years or more. METHOD: A 19-item questionnaire was developed to assess respondents’ preparedness information acquisition, communication plan, evacuation strategies, first-aid and disaster knowledge, financial resilience, and preparedness behaviors. In total, 1023 residents were interviewed at 516 GPS locations. Multiple logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with preparedness behaviors, defined as having an evacuation kit in our study. RESULTS: Television remains the key information source, both before and during disaster, with young respondents also favoring social media and the internet and elder residents preferring television and radio. Many respondents did not have adequate first-aid knowledge and few showed correct responses to a typhoon warning signal. Only 39.4% had an evacuation kit. In logistic regression, correct responses to first aid questions and a typhoon warning signal were significantly associated with kit preparation (OR 2.023, 95% CI 1.233−3.318, p=0.005). Residents with elderly household member(s) were significantly less likely to do so (OR 0.554, 95% CI 0.333−0.922, p=0.023). CONCLUSIONS: Community resilience-building programs should tailor information provision to different age groups with a focus on the family caregivers of elderly residents. There is a need to promulgate first-aid training and disaster education in the community.
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spelling pubmed-71039462020-03-31 Urban disaster preparedness of Hong Kong residents: A territory-wide survey Lam, Rex Pui Kin Leung, Ling Pong Balsari, Satchit Hsiao, Kai-hsun Newnham, Elizabeth Patrick, Kaylie Pham, Phuong Leaning, Jennifer Int J Disaster Risk Reduct Article OBJECTIVE: To assess the state of community disaster preparedness of Hong Kong residents and to identify factors associated with adequate preparedness behaviors. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey using random Global Positioning System (GPS) spatial sampling conducted from the 8 August 2015 to 6 September 2015. PARTICIPANTS: Hong Kong residents aged 18 years or more. METHOD: A 19-item questionnaire was developed to assess respondents’ preparedness information acquisition, communication plan, evacuation strategies, first-aid and disaster knowledge, financial resilience, and preparedness behaviors. In total, 1023 residents were interviewed at 516 GPS locations. Multiple logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with preparedness behaviors, defined as having an evacuation kit in our study. RESULTS: Television remains the key information source, both before and during disaster, with young respondents also favoring social media and the internet and elder residents preferring television and radio. Many respondents did not have adequate first-aid knowledge and few showed correct responses to a typhoon warning signal. Only 39.4% had an evacuation kit. In logistic regression, correct responses to first aid questions and a typhoon warning signal were significantly associated with kit preparation (OR 2.023, 95% CI 1.233−3.318, p=0.005). Residents with elderly household member(s) were significantly less likely to do so (OR 0.554, 95% CI 0.333−0.922, p=0.023). CONCLUSIONS: Community resilience-building programs should tailor information provision to different age groups with a focus on the family caregivers of elderly residents. There is a need to promulgate first-aid training and disaster education in the community. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2017-08 2017-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7103946/ /pubmed/32289012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.04.008 Text en © 2017 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Newnham, Elizabeth
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Leaning, Jennifer
Urban disaster preparedness of Hong Kong residents: A territory-wide survey
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title_fullStr Urban disaster preparedness of Hong Kong residents: A territory-wide survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32289012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.04.008
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