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E Whitney Pollio1, Jennifer Wang, Edward Randle
1From the College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida (E.W.P.); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington (J.W.); Department of Social Work, Tarleton State University, Ft. Worth, Texas (E.R.); Private Practice, Tampa, Florida (D.E.P.); The Altshuler Center for Education & Research Metrocare Services, Metrocare Services, Dallas, Texas (C.S.N.); and Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (C.S.N.).
Objective:
Much of disaster mental health research uses quantitative methods, focusing on numerical prevalence, services, and outcomes.
Methods:
Qualitative methods can provide more detailed, rich, and spontaneous insights into personal disaster experiences, yielding important insights beyond deductive methods. This large-scale qualitative narrative study examined experiences of 181 Oklahoma City bombing rescue/recovery workers.
Results:
Thematic narrative content of the bombing experience arose from personal accounts of the bomb blast by rescue/recovery workers proceeding chronologically from initial awareness and deployment to harrowing onsite search and rescue/recovery missions to the aftermath with reflections on the bombing.
Conclusions:
Beyond disaster recovery/rescue worker stories published in popular media, little other substantive published knowledge on this topic is available, and therefore this research study provides a wealth of new in-depth information that can provide guidance for policy and practice for disaster response.
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