Journal of Education and Health Promotion 2277-9531 10 1 2020 01 01 Assessment of school resilience in disasters: A cross‑sectional study 1 5 28808 EN . Samaneh Mirzaei . Hossein Falahzade Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran . Leila Mohammadinia Health Human Resource Research Center, School of Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran . Khadijeh Nasiriani Research Center for Nursing and Midwifery Care, Department of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd . Abbas Ali Dehghani Tafti . Zohreh Rahaei Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd . Hamid Reza Amiri Department of Civil Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Journal Article 2023 02 27 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: School resilience is defined as risk‑reducing strategies used to<br />create a safe environment for students when faced natural disasters. Resilient schools, in addition to<br />their educational role, provide a suitable capacity for responding to disasters and rehabilitation after<br />the incidence. This study determined the level of disaster resilience of schools in Yazd, central Iran.<br />MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a descriptive‑analytic study conducted among 400 schools<br />and 367 participants in Yazd, 2018. To collect data, we used the school resilience in disasters<br />questionnaire (α =0.95 and intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.97 [95% confidence interval:<br />0.96–0.98]) containing 48 questions. We also analyzed the gleaned data through the Pearson<br />correlation coefficient, one‑way ANOVA, and independent t‑test.<br />RESULTS: The total score of school disaster resilience was 153.30 ± 29.57. In these schools, the<br />function had the highest (47.76 ± 13.96), and safety had the lowest (6.74 ± 3.18) score among<br />all areas of school disaster resilience. There was a positive significant correlation between total<br />resilience and areas of function, education, structural, nonstructural, architecture, commute routes,<br />safety, location, and equipment (P < 0.001). Location had the smallest (r = 0.424) and function had<br />the greatest (r = 0.854) correlation with total resilience.<br />CONCLUSION: It can help the school management board in assessing the level of resilience of their<br />school and determining the priorities for disaster risk reduction. Awareness of the status of resilience<br />can help policy‑makers and experts create an effective program for increasing resilience.<br /><br /> https://jehp.mui.ac.ir/article_28808_2a5f614fbd6b69fd6695ae213d63eef0.pdf