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Psychosocial care for women survivors of the tsunami disaster in India

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Objectives. I investigated the effectiveness of Psychosocial Care, a community-based mental health initiative for survivors of the 2004 tsunami disaster in India. Methods. Mental health teams from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in India implemented a train-the-trainer model of psychosocial care in one of the worst tsunami-affected areas of south India. Three months of psychosocial care was provided for an intervention group of women, but not for a control group recruited from an exposed neighboring village. Impact of Event Scale (IES) scores-both total scores and scores for subscales on hypervigilance, avoidance, and intrusion-were compiled for both the intervention and control groups and used as outcome measures. Results. For the intervention group, posttest total IES and subscale scores were significantly lower than pretest scores (P

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  • Becker, S.M., 2009. "Psychosocial care for women survivors of the tsunami disaster in India," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 99(4), pages 654-658.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2008.146571_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.146571
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    1. Krishnan, Supriya & Patnaik, Ila, 2018. "Health and Disaster Risk Management in India," Working Papers 18/241, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
    2. Kyle Lipinski & Lucia L Liu & Paul WC Wong, 2016. "The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions implemented after the Indian Ocean Tsunami: A systematic review," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 62(3), pages 271-280, May.
    3. Lynne Keevers & Deborah Gough & Jacqui Cameron & Anthony McKnight & Saskia Ebejer & Susan Duchesne & Adam Gowen & Karen Fildes & Maria Mackay, 2024. "Practices Supporting Community Recovery and Healing from Climate-Related Disasters: A Systematic Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(6), pages 1-26, June.
    4. Ke Cui & Timothy Sim, 2017. "Older people’s psychosocial needs in a post-disaster rural community of China: an exploratory study," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 85(3), pages 1577-1590, February.

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