University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, USA.
Public Health Nurs. 2022 Jan;39(1):62-70. doi: 10.1111/phn.13007. Epub 2021 Nov 4.
To explore the beliefs, attitudes, and perspectives of community resilience in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis using the EnRiCH Community Resilience Framework for High-Risk Populations (EnRiCH Framework) to identify factors that enhance or create barriers to community resilience to disasters in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Twenty-one key informants and 23 community informants provided insight into the history of disasters.
Unique strengths and barriers that significantly influenced this high-risk population's adaptive capacity were identified. A discrepancy between the way disaster preparedness was perceived by government officials and the local population was noted. Cultural factors promoted connectedness and communication and created barriers to empowerment and collaboration. Innovative strategies were suggested that could enhance upstream leadership, downstream management, and resource management during disasters.
Island communities represent a unique opportunity to examine risk reduction and vulnerability within the context of community and societal characteristics. This research addresses a significant gap in the literature on interventions that utilize a strengths-based approach to building adaptive capacity and resilience to disasters among at-risk populations. The EnRiCH Framework can be used to develop an approach to strengthen adaptive capacity and improve resilience to disasters.
探索圣基茨和尼维斯社区韧性的信念、态度和观点。
使用高危人群社区韧性增强框架（EnRiCH 框架）进行定性解释现象学分析，以确定增强或造成圣基茨和尼维斯社区对灾害韧性的障碍的因素。
21 名关键知情者和 23 名社区知情者深入了解了灾害历史。
确定了对这一高风险人群适应能力有重大影响的独特优势和障碍。注意到政府官员和当地居民对备灾的看法存在差异。文化因素促进了联系和沟通，同时也对赋权和合作造成了障碍。提出了一些创新策略，可以增强灾害期间的上游领导力、下游管理和资源管理。
岛屿社区为在社区和社会特征背景下研究减少风险和脆弱性提供了独特的机会。这项研究填补了利用基于优势的方法来增强高危人群对灾害的适应能力和韧性的干预措施文献中的一个重大空白。EnRiCH 框架可用于制定一种方法，以增强适应能力并提高对灾害的韧性。
