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Area of Science:

  • Disaster Management
  • Public Health
  • Sociology

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  • Household emergency preparedness frequently falls short of national disaster standards.
  • This gap highlights a critical need for better understanding and improvement at the individual and family levels.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To achieve conceptual clarity of household emergency preparedness.
  • This is foundational for advancing disaster preparedness research, theory development, and the effective use of preparedness instruments.

Main Methods:

  • Employed Walker and Avant's (2019) concept analysis method.
  • Identified concept uses, defining attributes, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents.
  • Conducted a comprehensive literature search across major academic databases and government websites.

Main Results:

  • The analysis provides a structured understanding of household emergency preparedness.
  • Identified key components and relationships within the concept.

Conclusions:

  • Concept clarification is essential for designing future research, particularly multidisciplinary community-based interventions.
  • Understanding micro-level preparedness is key to influencing macro-level disaster system outcomes.