Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Directorate, Wolverhampton City PCT, Wolverhampton, UK.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2010 Jan;52(Suppl 1):S286-90. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.69254.
The primary source for this annotation on disaster mental health research is the Indian Journal of Psychiatry. Key words like disasters, earthquake, cyclone, tsunami and flood were searched from its electronic database and relevant articles are discussed. The cross-referenced articles and relevant researches conducted on disasters in India which are published elsewhere were the secondary sources of information. There have been many epidemiological studies and only a few interventional studies on disasters in India. Prevalence figures of psychiatric disorders varied considerably across studies, secondary to nature and severity of disaster, degree of loss, support available and probably also due to the study methodology. Suggestions for intervention included pre-disaster planning, training of disaster workers, utilization of community-level volunteers as counselors, and strengthening existing individual, social and spiritual coping strategies. There is a need for more longitudinal follow-up studies and interventional studies.
本研究对灾难心理健康研究的主要资料来源于《印度精神病学杂志》。从其电子数据库中检索了诸如灾害、地震、旋风、海啸和洪水等关键词，并对相关文章进行了讨论。此外，还参考了在其他地方发表的有关印度灾害的文章和相关研究，将其作为信息的次要来源。印度已经进行了许多关于灾害的流行病学研究，仅有少数干预研究。由于灾害的性质和严重程度、损失程度、可获得的支持等因素的不同，不同研究中的精神障碍患病率差异很大，这可能也是由于研究方法的不同所致。干预建议包括灾难前的规划、对灾难工作者的培训、利用社区级志愿者作为顾问，以及加强现有的个人、社会和精神应对策略。需要进行更多的纵向随访研究和干预研究。
