TY - JOUR
T1 - Effectiveness of Household Emergency Plans in Violent Tornadoes
AU - Cong, Zhen
AU - Liang, Daan
AU - Luo, Jianjun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health.
PY - 2021/12/13
Y1 - 2021/12/13
N2 - Objective: This study examined factors that were associated with the effectiveness of pre-existing household emergency plans during the 2011 EF5 Joplin and EF4 Tuscaloosa tornadoes. We focused on whether discussing with family members helped increase the plan’s effectiveness. Methods: A telephone survey based on random sampling was conducted in 2012 with 1006 respondents in both cities. Each city experienced huge losses, injuries, and casualties. The working sample included 494 respondents who had a household emergency plan in place before these tornadoes. Results: Multinomial logistic regression showed that discussing with family members increased the helpfulness of the plan in Joplin, where people had not experienced tornadoes frequently and were less prepared for tornadoes relative to residents in Tuscaloosa. Conclusions: This study provides empirical evidence on the importance of encouraging family involvement when making household emergency plans, especially in places that are less prepared for disasters than those that are better prepared.
AB - Objective: This study examined factors that were associated with the effectiveness of pre-existing household emergency plans during the 2011 EF5 Joplin and EF4 Tuscaloosa tornadoes. We focused on whether discussing with family members helped increase the plan’s effectiveness. Methods: A telephone survey based on random sampling was conducted in 2012 with 1006 respondents in both cities. Each city experienced huge losses, injuries, and casualties. The working sample included 494 respondents who had a household emergency plan in place before these tornadoes. Results: Multinomial logistic regression showed that discussing with family members increased the helpfulness of the plan in Joplin, where people had not experienced tornadoes frequently and were less prepared for tornadoes relative to residents in Tuscaloosa. Conclusions: This study provides empirical evidence on the importance of encouraging family involvement when making household emergency plans, especially in places that are less prepared for disasters than those that are better prepared.
KW - Disaster preparedness
KW - Household emergency plan
KW - Tornado
KW - Vulnerability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091740246&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/dmp.2020.129
DO - 10.1017/dmp.2020.129
M3 - Article
C2 - 32654683
AN - SCOPUS:85091740246
SN - 1935-7893
VL - 15
SP - 677
EP - 678
JO - Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
JF - Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
IS - 6
ER -