农村和农业自然灾害压力和恢复:比较
Kristin K Gaffney1, Sharon Medcalf2, Ellen Duysen3
1Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
Journal of agromedicine
|July 3, 2023
概括
美国农业生产者在灾难压力和恢复方面与非农业群体没有区别,尽管农业女性报告创伤后增长较低. 农村居民在自然灾害后经历了长期症状.
科学领域:
- 灾难心理健康 灾难心理健康
- 农业心理学 农业心理学
- 创伤的恢复创伤的恢复
背景情况:
- 急性自然灾害对心理健康产生重大影响.
- 了解对农业人口与非农业人口的影响差异对于有针对性的支持至关重要.
- 之前的研究还没有充分探讨这些灾后的具体差异.
研究的目的:
- 测试假设美国农业生产者与非农业人士相比,经历自然灾害的压力和恢复不同.
- 为了比较这些群体之间的弹性,压力症状和创伤后生长.
- 确定影响灾害影响农村社区恢复的因素.
主要方法:
- 开发了一种新的调查工具,结合了经过验证的尺度 (简要弹性尺度,事件影响尺度,创伤后成长库存-简短表格) 和原始问题.
- 参与者来自阿肯色州和内布拉斯加州的龙卷风和洪水影响社区.
- 统计分析包括奇平方测试,t测试,威尔科克森测试和多重线性回归.
主要成果:
- 农业和非农业群体在弹性,压力或恢复率方面没有发现显著差异.
- 农业群体的未经调整的创伤后生长得分明显较低 (P=.02).
- 职业和性别之间的相互作用表明,农业妇女的创伤后生长率较低,控制了最初的压力症状 (P=.02). 农村居民报告说,灾难发生后长达8年的创伤后症状持续存在.
结论:
- 总体而言,农业和非农业农村群体之间没有观察到灾害压力和恢复的显著差异.
- 有证据表明,农业妇女可能经历较低的创伤后生长.
- 社区准备和恢复计划必须有意地包括支持农业人口心理和情感健康的战略.
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