Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, UK.
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Jun;16(3):1259-1269. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2021.41. Epub 2021 May 7.
To summarize existing literature on the mental health impact of the Flint Water Crisis.
In March 2020, we searched 5 databases for literature exploring the psychological consequences of the crisis. Main findings were extracted.
132 citations were screened and 11 included in the review. Results suggest a negative psychological effect caused by the water crisis, including anxiety and health worries, exacerbated by lowered trust in public health officials, uncertainty about the long-term impacts of the crisis, financial hardships, stigma, and difficulties seeking help. There was evidence that concerns about tap water continued even after the state of emergency was lifted.
With a possible compound effect to residents of Flint with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the results highlight the need for more resources for psychological health interventions in Flint as well as a need for local governments and health authorities to regain the trust of those affected by the Flint Water Crisis.
总结有关弗林特水危机对心理健康影响的现有文献。
2020 年 3 月，我们在 5 个数据库中搜索了探索危机心理后果的文献。提取主要发现。
筛选出 132 篇引文，其中 11 篇纳入综述。结果表明，水危机造成了负面的心理影响，包括焦虑和健康担忧，公众对公共卫生官员的信任度降低、对危机长期影响的不确定性、经济困难、污名化和寻求帮助的困难加剧了这种影响。有证据表明，即使在紧急状态解除后，人们对自来水的担忧仍在继续。
鉴于最近 COVID-19 大流行对弗林特居民可能产生的复合影响，这些结果强调了弗林特需要更多的心理健康干预资源，同时也需要地方政府和卫生当局重新赢得受弗林特水危机影响的人们的信任。
