Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University and Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Rehabilitation Department, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 29;17(7):2297. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17072297.
Being one of the world's seismically hazard-prone countries, the People's Republic of China (PRC) witnessed an 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12th 2008-which was reported as one of the most destructive disasters since its founding. Following this earthquake, rehabilitation was greatly required for survivors to enable them to achieve and maintain optimal independence; functioning; full physical, mental and social ability; inclusion; and participation in all aspects of life and environments. We conducted a systematic review based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines to retrospectively identify, in five English databases/sources, the existing evidence about the Health-Related Rehabilitation (HRR) that was rendered to the survivors of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake between 2008 and 2018. Only 11 studies out of 828 initial studies retrieved were included in our study and reported the survivors of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake to have been aged between 10.5 and 55.7, and predominantly diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorders. Their HRR was mainly premised on physical and physiological therapies, as well as traditional Chinese medicine and digital technologies. Although all HRR interventions used were reported to be effective, none was identified as much more effective than the others in the post-earthquake era -which calls for more robust research to build upon our systematic review.
中国是世界上地震多发国家之一，2008 年 5 月 12 日发生了 8.0 级地震，这被认为是建国以来最具破坏性的灾害之一。地震发生后，幸存者需要进行康复治疗，以使其达到并保持最佳的独立、功能、身体、精神和社会能力、包容和参与生活各个方面和环境的能力。我们按照系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目（PRISMA）指南进行了系统回顾，以回顾性地确定在五个英文数据库/来源中，关于为 2008 年汶川地震幸存者提供的与健康相关的康复（HRR）的现有证据，时间范围为 2008 年至 2018 年。在最初检索到的 828 项研究中，只有 11 项研究被纳入我们的研究并报告了 2008 年汶川地震幸存者的年龄在 10.5 岁至 55.7 岁之间，主要被诊断为创伤后应激障碍。他们的 HRR 主要基于身体和生理治疗，以及中医和数字技术。虽然所有使用的 HRR 干预措施都被报道是有效的，但在地震后时期，没有一种干预措施被认为比其他干预措施更有效，这需要更强大的研究来建立在我们的系统评价基础上。
