What is it about?
Disasters can cause physical, mental and financial harm. Being prepared for disasters may prevent some negative outcomes. There are few sound measures of disaster preparedness that are useful for all disasters. We describe the development and empirical support for our Emergency Preparedness Checklist (EPC), based on three groups of people: college students, adults in a metropolitan area, and a nationwide sample of adults with physical disabilities. The EPC had ample statistical support and related to other measures as it should based on disaster theories.
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Why is it important?
This is one of only several preparedness checklists that can be used for many, if not all, natural and human-made disasters.
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Writing this paper was a pleasure and gave us the opportunity to include colleagues who have collected data on numerous samples over the last few years.
Associate Professor Cynthia A. Rohrbeck
The George Washington University
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This page is a summary of: Measuring personal emergency preparedness: validation and application of the emergency preparedness checklist, Natural Hazards, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-024-06529-w.
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