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Who Participates in Building Disaster Resilient Communities: A Cluster-Analytic Approach
Rachel M Adams1, Helene Rivard, David P Eisenman
1Emergency Preparedness and Response Program, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California (Mss Adams and Rivard and Dr Eisenman); Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (Ms Adams); and Center for Public Health and Disasters, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (Dr Eisenman).
Context:
The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience project is a community-based program to improve disaster resilience. We collected baseline measures of resilience-related attitudes and practices among targeted communities prior to the implementation of the intervention.
Objectives:
This study identified community disaster resilience behavior patterns and assessed their associations with sociodemographic and social cognitive characteristics.
Design:
Telephone surveys during summer 2013.
Setting:
Sixteen communities in Los Angeles County (2 per service planning area).
Participants:
The address-based sample of adults (≥18) was selected to be representative of 2010 census tracts in each of the communitiesMAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:: We examined relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, social cognitive factors, and participation in community disaster resilience activities.
Results:
Three clusters of community resilience behavior patterns emerged. Cluster distribution significantly differed across several sociodemographic and social cognitive factors. Participants who were African American, Hispanic, had higher education, income, self-efficacy, trust in the public health department, civic engagement, and social capital were significantly associated with being in the cluster most active in resilience-building activities.
Conclusions:
The results confirm that there are distinct community resilience behavior patterns. These patterns vary according to population characteristics, which supports audience segmentation approaches and developing a range of emergency preparedness programs targeted to the strengths and weaknesses of the different audience segments.
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