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- Title
We Stop for No Storm: Coping with an Environmental Disaster and Public Health Research.
- Authors
Reifsnider, Elizabeth; Bishop, Sheryl L.; An, Kyungeh; Mendias, Elnora; Welker-Hood, Kristen; Moramarco, Michael W.; Davila, Yolanda R.
- Abstract
Coping with natural disasters is part of the public nurses' role, and the public health nursing (PHN) researcher is doubly challenged with continuing to conduct community-based research in the midst of the disaster. The PHN may provide service along with attempting to continue the research. The challenges faced by public/community health nurse researchers as a result of hurricane Ike are discussed to provide lessons for other public/community health researchers who may be affected by natural disasters in the future. It is important to consider challenges for recruitment and retention of research subjects after a disaster, impact of natural disasters on ongoing research, and opportunities for research to be found in coping with natural disasters. A community-based study that was in progress at the time of hurricane Ike will be used as an example for coping with a natural disaster. We will present 'lessons learned' in the hope of helping researchers consider what can go wrong with research studies in the midst of natural disasters and how to proactively plan for keeping research reliable and valid when natural disasters occur. We will also discuss the opportunities for collaborations between researchers and the community following any disaster.
- Subjects
TEXAS; COMMUNITY health nursing; COMMUNITY health services; EMERGENCY management; ENDOWMENT of research; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL research personnel; NATURAL disasters; NURSES; NURSING research; RESEARCH ethics; PATIENT participation; HUMAN research subjects; PATIENT selection
- Publication
Public Health Nursing, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 6, p500
- ISSN
0737-1209
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/phn.12160