Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Child Care Aware® of America, Arlington, Virginia.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2019 Aug;13(4):704-708. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2018.145. Epub 2019 Apr 3.
Children are at increased risk for experiencing negative physical and mental health outcomes as a result of disasters. Millions of children spend their days in childcare centers or in residential family childcare settings. The purpose of this study was to describe childcare providers' perceived levels of preparedness capabilities and to assess differences in levels of perceived preparedness between different types of childcare providers.
A national convenience sample of childcare center administrators and residential family childcare administrators completed a brief online survey about their preparedness efforts.
Overall, there were few differences in preparedness between childcare centers and residential family childcare providers. However, childcare centers were more likely to report that they had written plans (94.47%) than residential family childcare providers (83.73%) were (χ12=15.62; P<.001). Both types of providers were more likely to report being very prepared/prepared for fires (91.31%) than they were for any other type of emergency (flooding, active shooter, etc.; 45.08% to 79.34%).
Future work should assess how childcare providers respond to and recover from emergencies, as well as explore the types of resources childcare providers need in order to feel comfortable caring for children during such emergency situations. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:704-708).
儿童由于灾害而面临更多的身心健康不良后果的风险。数以百万计的儿童在日托中心或家庭式日托机构中度过他们的日子。本研究的目的是描述日托提供者的感知准备能力，并评估不同类型的日托提供者之间的准备水平差异。
采用全国便利样本，对日托中心的管理人员和家庭式日托机构的管理人员进行了一项关于其准备工作的简短在线调查。
总体而言，日托中心和家庭式日托提供者之间的准备工作差异不大。然而，日托中心报告称他们制定了书面计划（94.47%）的比例高于家庭式日托提供者（83.73%）（χ12=15.62；P<.001）。这两种类型的提供者报告说，他们对火灾（91.31%）的准备程度非常高/高，而对其他任何类型的紧急情况（洪水、活跃枪手等）的准备程度则较低（45.08%至 79.34%）。
未来的工作应该评估日托提供者如何应对和从紧急情况中恢复，以及探索日托提供者需要哪些类型的资源，以便在这种紧急情况下感到舒适地照顾儿童。（灾难医学与公共卫生准备。2019；13:704-708）。
