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Flood Disaster Management for Older People in Flood-Prone Areas |
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| รหัสดีโอไอ | |
| Creator | Fatmah Fatmah |
| Title | Flood Disaster Management for Older People in Flood-Prone Areas |
| Publisher | Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment |
| Publication Year | 2566 |
| Journal Title | EnvironmentAsia |
| Journal Vol. | 16 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 24-34 |
| Keyword | Older people, Disaster-prone groups, Knowledge and practice, Flood disastermanagement |
| URL Website | http://www.tshe.org/ea/index.html |
| Website title | EnvironmentAsia |
| ISSN | 1906-1714 |
| Abstract | Older people should have good knowledge and ability to practice flood disastermanagement. A cross-sectional study towards 140 respondents participated in the study.In this study, the majority of older people were able to specify the types of disaster;definition of flooding; factors that cause flooding; impact of floods; and signs that aflood would occur. Most of older people had a flood knowledge score of 38.5. The meanscore for disaster management practices was highest during a disaster (26.5 points)followed by a score before a disaster (24.8 points) and after a disaster (18.8 points)as the lowest score. Flood knowledge was significantly different among differentmarital status, gender, age, family income, education, and the number of respondents'children who were still alive. The older people with good flood knowledge were 3.63times better in implementing flood management than the older people with low floodknowledge (Odd Ratio 3.63). It can be concluded that most older people have goodknowledge of flooding, but it is necessary to increase older people's knowledge beforethe flood so that mitigation practices and flood preparedness can be better in this group. |
