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Mitigating Psychological Problems Associated With The 2023 Wildfires In Alberta And Nova Scotia: Six-week Outcomes From The Text4hope Program.

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Mitigating Psychological Problems Associated With The 2023 Wildfires In Alberta And Nova Scotia: Six-week Outcomes From The Text4hope Program.

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Mitigating Psychological Problems Associated with the 2023 Wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia: Six-Week Outcomes

Gloria Obuobi-Donkor¹, Reham Shalaby², Belinda Agyapong²

¹Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.

Journal of Clinical Medicine

|February 10, 2024

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Summary

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The Text4Hope text message intervention effectively reduced psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms, and improved wellbeing in wildfire-affected Canadians. This Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based program offers scalable mental health support during disasters.

Keywords:

Alberta Nova Scotia psychological problems text messaging wildfire

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Area of Science:

Mental Health
Public Health
Disaster Response

Background:

Wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia in 2023 caused significant destruction and displacement.
Previous research indicates wildfires exacerbate community psychological distress, necessitating interventions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based text message programs, Text4HopeAB and Text4HopeNS, were implemented to support mental health during the 2023 wildfire season.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the effectiveness of Text4HopeNS and Text4HopeAB in reducing psychological symptoms.
To assess the impact of the Text4Hope program on the wellbeing of individuals affected by wildfires.

Main Methods:

The study utilized longitudinal and naturalistic controlled trial designs.
Participants completed validated scales measuring resilience, wellbeing, depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), PTSD (PCL-C), and suicidal ideation.

Paired and independent sample t-tests were used for data analysis.

Main Results:

Longitudinal analysis showed significant reductions in depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms, and improved wellbeing.
The intervention group in the controlled trial demonstrated significantly lower scores for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and suicidal ideation compared to the control group.
Both studies indicated improvements in mental wellbeing, though resilience scores did not significantly change.

Conclusions:

The Text4Hope program is an effective intervention for mitigating psychological symptoms in wildfire survivors.
This CBT-based text messaging approach provides scalable and culturally sensitive mental health support.
Findings support the integration of such interventions into disaster response strategies for climate change-related events.