Warsini Sri, Buettner Petra, Mills Jane, West Caryn, Usher Kim
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, Australia.
School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Science, Townsville, Australia.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2014 Jun;8(3):229-238. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2014.45. Epub 2014 Jun 26.
The Mt Merapi volcanic eruption in October 2010 claimed more than 386 lives, injured thousands of survivors, and devastated the surrounding environment. No instrument was available in Indonesia to assess the psychosocial impact on survivors of environmental degradation caused by such natural disasters. We developed, translated, and tested an Indonesian version of the Environmental Distress Scale (EDS) for use as a tool to reliably measure environmental distress related to environmental damage in Indonesia.
The EDS, a prospective translation and psychometric study, was modified for use in a volcano disaster setting in Indonesia; translated into Indonesian; and pilot tested to determine meaning and cultural appropriateness. A test-retest study with 80 survivors of the 2010 Mt Merapi volcanic eruption measured the reliability of the tool.
The Indonesian version of the EDS (I-EDS) captured the content of the original EDS with appropriate adaptations for cultural differences of Indonesian natural disaster survivors.
The I-EDS can be considered a reliable tool for assessing the psychosocial impact of environmental degradation from natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, which might be useful for Indonesian researchers.
2010年10月默拉皮火山爆发造成386人以上死亡，数千名幸存者受伤，周边环境遭到严重破坏。印度尼西亚没有可用的工具来评估此类自然灾害导致的环境退化对幸存者造成的心理社会影响。我们开发、翻译并测试了印度尼西亚语版的环境困扰量表（EDS），作为可靠测量印度尼西亚因环境破坏而产生的环境困扰的工具。
对EDS进行前瞻性翻译和心理测量研究，针对印度尼西亚火山灾害情况进行修改；翻译成印度尼西亚语；并进行预测试以确定其含义和文化适宜性。对2010年默拉皮火山爆发的80名幸存者进行重测研究，以测量该工具的可靠性。
印度尼西亚语版的EDS（I-EDS）在针对印度尼西亚自然灾害幸存者的文化差异进行适当调整后，涵盖了原始EDS的内容。
I-EDS可被视为评估火山爆发等自然灾害导致的环境退化的心理社会影响的可靠工具，这可能对印度尼西亚研究人员有用。
