Bui Bonnie Khanh Ha, Anglewicz Philip, VanLandingham Mark J
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
SSM Popul Health. 2021 Mar 26;14:100779. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100779. eCollection 2021 Jun.
Social support may facilitate disaster recovery. Prior analyses are hampered by the limits of cross-sectional approaches. We use longitudinal data from the KATIVA-NOLA survey to explore whether social support soon after Hurricane Katrina facilitated recovery of health status for a representative sample of 82 Vietnamese New Orleanians. Health and social support were assessed just before Hurricane Katrina (2005), soon afterwards (2006, 2007), and at longer durations post-disaster (2010, 2018). We use random effects regression to examine how social support measured in 2006 influences mental and physical health measured in 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2018. Social support soon after Katrina was positively associated with physical health and mental health years later in 2010, even after controlling for potential confounders such as Katrina-related housing damage and pre-Katrina health and support and modeling an interaction between year and social support in 2006. Other immigrants who are highly impacted by a major disaster could benefit from programs that seek to rapidly reconstruct systems of social support.
社会支持可能有助于灾难恢复。以往的分析受到横断面研究方法局限性的阻碍。我们利用卡特里娜 - 新奥尔良调查的纵向数据，探讨卡特里娜飓风过后不久的社会支持是否促进了82名越南裔新奥尔良代表性样本的健康状况恢复。在卡特里娜飓风（2005年）来临前、过后不久（2006年、2007年）以及灾后较长时间（2010年、2018年）对健康和社会支持进行了评估。我们使用随机效应回归来研究2006年测得的社会支持如何影响2006年、2007年、2010年和2018年测得的身心健康。即使在控制了诸如与卡特里娜相关的住房损坏、卡特里娜飓风来临前的健康和支持等潜在混杂因素，并对2006年的年份与社会支持之间的相互作用进行建模之后，卡特里娜飓风过后不久的社会支持与2010年几年后的身心健康仍呈正相关。其他受重大灾难严重影响的移民可能会从旨在迅速重建社会支持系统的项目中受益。
