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Face-to-face workshops may increase preparedness for disaster

According to a new study, face-to-face workshops, based on the psychology of behaviour change and disaster preparedness, can be used to prompt households to protect themselves against disasters like earthquakes, fires, and floods.

By: ANI   | | Published: April 2, 2019 12:47 pm
Tags: Behaviour  Computer  Household work  natural disaster  Television  
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Ill-preparedness can cause larger post-disaster losses and greater loss of life. © Shutterstock

The study found that households in evidence-based, face-to-face workshops, there can be a change in householders’ natural disaster preparedness that would last long term, potentially saving lives. Even though, vulnerability to natural disasters is increasing globally, even in high-risk regions few households have measures in place to protect and prepare themselves. Also Read - Babies who are born in big cities are less likely to be fussy: Study

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Ill-preparedness can cause larger post-disaster losses and greater loss of life, injury, and displacement. According to Helene Joffe, lead researcher of the study published in the Journal of Nature Human Behaviour, even small measures can save countless lives. Being prepared for multiple hazards tends to make households more resilient, especially given that hazards can occur simultaneously or in rapid sequences, such as the recent cyclones followed by floods in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Also Read - No time to go gyming? Clean your house instead

As part of the study, the researchers ran workshops to empower people to make small household adjustments to prepare for disasters, such as securing TVs, computers and cabinets to the walls and ensuring objects are not placed above beds regarding protection from earthquakes. They also showed the importance of keeping exits clear of obstruction and having functioning smoke detectors and in-date fire extinguishers, regarding fire protection.

The workshops were comprised of two three-hour training sessions, after which the researchers observed whether households had adopted disaster preparedness behaviours. Half of the households in the sample were given the training, and half were not.”We found that behavioural changes were most likely where there was home ownership and high outcome expectancy – that is, when individuals had a sense of agency and believed their actions would have an effect, they were more likely to make changes,” said Joffe.

“An unintended consequence of the study was that even the control group – which did not receive training – improved its preparedness behaviour. This suggests that when risk-related behaviours are simply being observed, householders will change their behaviours to become more prepared,” Joffe further explained. Professor Joffe concluded that face-to-face training, or even simply home observations, by external sources such as a fire department, could be a way to ensure that measures are put in place by householders across a population to prepare for natural disasters. The very idea of a disaster being ‘natural’ obscures how much humans can do to protect themselves from such events.

Published : April 2, 2019 12:47 pm
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