Increasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards

To ensure human resource availability for a smooth response during various types of disasters, there is a need to improve the intent of those involved in responding to each hazard type. However, Disaster Medical Assistance Team personnel’s intent to engage with specific hazards has yet to be clarifi...

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Autores principales:	Keita Iyama, Takeyasu Kakamu, Kazunori Yamashita, Yoshinobu Sato, Jiro Shimada, Osamu Tasaki, Arifumi Hasegawa
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	disaster emergency responders hazard human resources intent Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0beb35ea5c4649d895a61b63816d944c2021-11-11T16:43:58ZIncreasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards10.3390/ijerph1821116301660-46011661-7827https://doaj.org/article/0beb35ea5c4649d895a61b63816d944c2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11630https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601To ensure human resource availability for a smooth response during various types of disasters, there is a need to improve the intent of those involved in responding to each hazard type. However, Disaster Medical Assistance Team personnel’s intent to engage with specific hazards has yet to be clarified. This study therefore aimed to clarify the factors affecting Disaster Medical Assistance Team members’ (<i>n</i> = 178) intent to engage with each type of hazard through an anonymous web questionnaire survey containing 20 questions. Our results show that the intent to engage in disaster response activities was significantly lower for chemical (50), biological (47), radiological/nuclear (58), and explosive (52) incidents compared with natural (82) and man-made hazards (82) (<i>p</i> < 0.01). Multiple regression analysis showed that incentives were the most common factor affecting responders’ intent to engage with all hazard types, followed by self-confidence. Thus, creating a system that provides generous incentives could effectively improve disaster responders’ intent to engage with specific hazards. Another approach could be education and training to increase disaster responders’ confidence. We believe that the successful implementation of these measures would improve the intent of responders to engage with hazards and promote the recruitment of sufficient human resources.Keita IyamaTakeyasu KakamuKazunori YamashitaYoshinobu SatoJiro ShimadaOsamu TasakiArifumi HasegawaMDPI AGarticledisasteremergency respondershazardhuman resourcesintentMedicineRENInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11630, p 11630 (2021)
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spellingShingle	disaster emergency responders hazard human resources intent Medicine R Keita Iyama Takeyasu Kakamu Kazunori Yamashita Yoshinobu Sato Jiro Shimada Osamu Tasaki Arifumi Hasegawa Increasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards
description	To ensure human resource availability for a smooth response during various types of disasters, there is a need to improve the intent of those involved in responding to each hazard type. However, Disaster Medical Assistance Team personnel’s intent to engage with specific hazards has yet to be clarified. This study therefore aimed to clarify the factors affecting Disaster Medical Assistance Team members’ (<i>n</i> = 178) intent to engage with each type of hazard through an anonymous web questionnaire survey containing 20 questions. Our results show that the intent to engage in disaster response activities was significantly lower for chemical (50), biological (47), radiological/nuclear (58), and explosive (52) incidents compared with natural (82) and man-made hazards (82) (<i>p</i> < 0.01). Multiple regression analysis showed that incentives were the most common factor affecting responders’ intent to engage with all hazard types, followed by self-confidence. Thus, creating a system that provides generous incentives could effectively improve disaster responders’ intent to engage with specific hazards. Another approach could be education and training to increase disaster responders’ confidence. We believe that the successful implementation of these measures would improve the intent of responders to engage with hazards and promote the recruitment of sufficient human resources.
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author	Keita Iyama Takeyasu Kakamu Kazunori Yamashita Yoshinobu Sato Jiro Shimada Osamu Tasaki Arifumi Hasegawa
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title	Increasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards
title_short	Increasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards
title_full	Increasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards
title_fullStr	Increasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards
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publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/0beb35ea5c4649d895a61b63816d944c
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Increasing Disaster Medical Assistance Teams’ Intent to Engage with Specific Hazards

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