经历干旱或野火的弱势群体的心理健康:系统性审查
Karan Varshney1, Shelly Makleff1, Revathi N Krishna1
1Global and Women's Health Unit, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Global mental health (Cambridge, England)
|October 20, 2023
概括
气候变化正在增加自然灾害,影响弱势群体.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
背景情况:
- 气候变化在全球范围内加剧了自然灾害.
- 弱势群体不成比例地承担了这些事件带来的心理健康负担.
- 之前的审查并没有特别关注灾后脆弱群体的心理健康.
研究的目的:
- 系统地审查和综合全球关于自然灾害事件后脆弱人群心理健康结果的证据.
- 鉴定受火灾和干旱影响后弱势群体面临的常见心理健康挑战.
- 为受影响社区提供有针对性的干预和支持系统的信息.
主要方法:
- 在主要数据库 (MEDLINE,EMBASE,CINAHL,PsycInfo) 进行系统的文献搜索.
- 包括来自五个国家的18项研究,包括15959名参与者.
- 分析的重点是确定常见的弱点和报告的心理健康后果.
主要成果:
- 常见的弱点包括农村生活,低社会经济地位,少数民族地位和先前存在的医疗条件.
- 受干旱影响的个人报告说,他们感到焦虑,绝望,孤立和自杀念头.
- 受火灾影响的个人经历了创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 和愤怒,加剧了现有的挑战.
结论:
- 自然灾害后的心理健康问题显著加剧了弱势群体现有的健康和社会经济差距.
- 加强证据基础需要标准化措施,比较组和对交叉漏洞的分析.
- 分散数据对于了解和解决灾难心理健康计划中脆弱社区的独特需求至关重要.
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