(A296) Psychosocial Disaster Preparedness Program Form School Children

Mental health and psychosocial aspects of disaster preparedness in Thailand.

After the Asian tsunami, the Department of Mental Health, Thailand developed a national guideline for mental health interventions in disasters based on the lessons learnt from the mental health and psychosocial relief efforts launched. We advocate the integration of social interventions for the affected community into the general mental healthcare, which in turn should be available in the gener...

Mental health and psychosocial aspects of disaster preparedness in Myanmar.

Myanmar as a country in South-East Asia is vulnerable to disasters including storms, floods, fire, earth fall, earthquakes, depending on the geographical nature and climate of the area. The National Health Committee (NHC) of Myanmar has formed under it an Emergency Healthcare Committee. After the Asian tsunami, the Ministry of Health (MoH) formed the National Disaster Preparedness and Response ...

Disaster preparedness.

A school based psychosocial intervention was effective in children with persistent post-disaster trauma symptoms.

Intervention Children were allocated to 1 of 3 consecutively treated cohorts (n=65, 101, and 82 in each cohort, respectively). Children in the cohorts awaiting treatment served as controls. Within each cohort, children were further allocated to receive individual (n=73) or group treatment (n=176) given by trained school based counsellors (2 men and 2 women). 4 weekly sessions of manual guided t...

Community emergency/disaster preparedness.