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Investigating the Effect of Perceived Social Support on the Promotion of Earthquake-Related Awareness in Iranian High School Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2022

Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh Open the ORCID record for Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh [Opens in a new window] ,
Mahmoudreza Peyravi Open the ORCID record for Mahmoudreza Peyravi [Opens in a new window] ,
Hassan Khaledi ,
Vahid Saadatmand Open the ORCID record for Vahid Saadatmand [Opens in a new window]  and
Farahnaz Khaledi
Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Mahmoudreza Peyravi
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Hassan Khaledi*
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Vahid Saadatmand
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Farahnaz Khaledi
Affiliation:
Payame Noor University, Kharameh, Shiraz, Iran
*
Correspondence: Hassan Khaledi Mahmoudreza Peyravi Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies School of Health Management and Information Sciences Shiraz University of Medical SciencesShiraz, Iran E-mails: khaledihassan66@yahoo.com and peyravi110@gmail.com
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Abstract

Introduction and Objective:

Students are one of the groups in society that are always exposed to earthquake-related hazards. Perceived social support plays a major role in students’ self-efficacy to respond appropriately to earthquakes. Social support affects students’ beliefs about their abilities and enhances their performance during earthquakes. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of perceived social support on the promotion of earthquake-related awareness amongst high school students.

Methods:

The present educational intervention with a randomized control group was conducted on 64 high school students in Lordegan, Iran. The participants were randomly divided into an intervention and a control group. Earthquake-related awareness index and perceived social support were completed by the two groups before, immediately after, and two months after the intervention. The intervention group received 120-minute educational intervention sessions once a week for four weeks. The data were entered into the SPSS 20 software and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods.

Results:

According to the results, educational intervention was effective in improving the perceived social support. The results also showed that increasing the perceived social support significantly improved the earthquake-related awareness among the high school students in the intervention group compared to the control group after the intervention (P <.001).

Conclusion:

The findings revealed that perceived social support played a major role in promoting earthquake-related awareness in the high school students. Due to the accuracy of the study, these results can be considered in future investigations.

Keywords

awarenessearthquakeperceived social supportstudents
Type
Original Research
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 37 , Issue 5 , October 2022 , pp. 651 - 656
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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Footnotes

Note: Hassan Khaledi and Mahmoudreza Peyravi have had the same contribution and both are corresponding author.

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