Investigating the impact of a community disaster awareness training on subjective disaster preparedness

The case of Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy region

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ID3898545
AutoresMoamen Gouda (0000-0002-6685-7264, Professor, Graduate School of International and Area Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Republic of Korea), Yunjeong Yang (0000-0001-5203-071X, Professor, Graduate School of International and Area Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Republic of Korea, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen47
Número4
Páginas1047-1068
Fecha de publicación2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/disa.12575
PMID36772994
OpenAlexW4320032565
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas30

This paper investigates the impact of a community disaster awareness training on subjective disaster preparedness, focusing on the case of a Republic of Korean aid-supported disaster risk reduction project in the Ayeyarwaddy region of Myanmar. A subsequent survey by the authors of a total of 182 households, an equal number of project participating and control households, produced encouraging results regarding the endeavour. Although both ordinal logistic regression and ordinary least squares models support overall robust effectiveness of participating in the project, the results also reveal different effects of specific activities. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) awareness meetings and trainings, and personal visits to share knowledge and/or to distribute informative flyers, are important. In contrast, the significance of drills or community activities, in mass, is lost in a combined model. Consequently, 'personalising risk' should be prioritised in any DRR undertaking, as well as, and in particular, development cooperation aimed at increasing confidence in disaster preparedness

Disaster preparedness · Disaster risk reduction · Emergency management · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Geography · Injury prevention · Logistic regression · Ordered logit · Ordinal regression · Poison control · Political science · Preparedness · Suicide prevention · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Facility Location and Emergency Management · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology