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A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India
BACKGROUND: New Delhi is located in seismic zone IV, and the occurrence of earthquake is fairly common. Previous disasters have shown that only sustained and timely action to reduce risk can prevent or mitigate the impact of a disaster. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to assess the knowledge and prepa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7745799/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354023 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_404_19 |
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author | Agarwalla, Rashmi Pathak, Rambha Siddiqui, Aashiya Panda, Meely Gupta, Ekta Islam, Farzana |
author_facet | Agarwalla, Rashmi Pathak, Rambha Siddiqui, Aashiya Panda, Meely Gupta, Ekta Islam, Farzana |
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description | BACKGROUND: New Delhi is located in seismic zone IV, and the occurrence of earthquake is fairly common. Previous disasters have shown that only sustained and timely action to reduce risk can prevent or mitigate the impact of a disaster. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to assess the knowledge and preparedness regarding earthquake among the residents of South Delhi and to impart the awareness and assess the effectiveness of the awareness imparted. METHODOLOGY: One group pretest–posttest quasi-experimental research was done among 300 respondents on earthquake preparedness. RESULTS: As per the study, 89% of participants felt that earthquake is a concern for Delhi. It was observed that majority of the population are not prepared to handle large scale disaster. Significant association was found between pretest and posttest knowledge assessment scores of the study population. CONCLUSION: Disasters due to their unpredictable occurrence are difficult to tackle, but awareness and preparedness to face the calamity will help to reduce the burden of disaster. |
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spelling | pubmed-77457992020-12-21 A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India Agarwalla, Rashmi Pathak, Rambha Siddiqui, Aashiya Panda, Meely Gupta, Ekta Islam, Farzana Indian J Community Med Short Communication BACKGROUND: New Delhi is located in seismic zone IV, and the occurrence of earthquake is fairly common. Previous disasters have shown that only sustained and timely action to reduce risk can prevent or mitigate the impact of a disaster. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to assess the knowledge and preparedness regarding earthquake among the residents of South Delhi and to impart the awareness and assess the effectiveness of the awareness imparted. METHODOLOGY: One group pretest–posttest quasi-experimental research was done among 300 respondents on earthquake preparedness. RESULTS: As per the study, 89% of participants felt that earthquake is a concern for Delhi. It was observed that majority of the population are not prepared to handle large scale disaster. Significant association was found between pretest and posttest knowledge assessment scores of the study population. CONCLUSION: Disasters due to their unpredictable occurrence are difficult to tackle, but awareness and preparedness to face the calamity will help to reduce the burden of disaster. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7745799/ /pubmed/33354023 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_404_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Agarwalla, Rashmi Pathak, Rambha Siddiqui, Aashiya Panda, Meely Gupta, Ekta Islam, Farzana A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India |
title | A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India |
title_full | A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India |
title_fullStr | A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India |
title_full_unstemmed | A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India |
title_short | A Community-based Intervention Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Awareness Imparted on Earthquake Preparedness among the Residents of South Delhi, India |
title_sort | community-based intervention study to assess the effectiveness of awareness imparted on earthquake preparedness among the residents of south delhi, india |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7745799/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354023 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_404_19 |
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