. Samaneh Mirzaei; . Hossein Falahzade; . Leila Mohammadinia; . Khadijeh Nasiriani; . Abbas Ali Dehghani Tafti; . Zohreh Rahaei; . Hamid Reza Amiri
Volume 10, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 1-5
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: School resilience is defined as risk‑reducing strategies used tocreate a safe environment for students when faced natural disasters. Resilient schools, ...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: School resilience is defined as risk‑reducing strategies used tocreate a safe environment for students when faced natural disasters. Resilient schools, in addition totheir educational role, provide a suitable capacity for responding to disasters and rehabilitation afterthe incidence. This study determined the level of disaster resilience of schools in Yazd, central Iran.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a descriptive‑analytic study conducted among 400 schoolsand 367 participants in Yazd, 2018. To collect data, we used the school resilience in disastersquestionnaire (α =0.95 and intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.97 [95% confidence interval:0.96–0.98]) containing 48 questions. We also analyzed the gleaned data through the Pearsoncorrelation coefficient, one‑way ANOVA, and independent t‑test.RESULTS: The total score of school disaster resilience was 153.30 ± 29.57. In these schools, thefunction had the highest (47.76 ± 13.96), and safety had the lowest (6.74 ± 3.18) score amongall areas of school disaster resilience. There was a positive significant correlation between totalresilience and areas of function, education, structural, nonstructural, architecture, commute routes,safety, location, and equipment (P < 0.001). Location had the smallest (r = 0.424) and function hadthe greatest (r = 0.854) correlation with total resilience.CONCLUSION: It can help the school management board in assessing the level of resilience of theirschool and determining the priorities for disaster risk reduction. Awareness of the status of resiliencecan help policy‑makers and experts create an effective program for increasing resilience.
