The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study

A cross‐sectional study design was created, using the Index of Perceived Community Resilience (IPCR) and Buckner’s Index of Cohesion (BIC) to survey 386 flood evacuees from six communities in Kelantan, Malaysia, in 2015. The respondents were mostly female (54.7%); lived in basic housing (95.6%);...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar, Rohaizat, Munirah, Arbon, Paul
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2019
Subjects:	HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HT51 Human settlements. Communities RA Public aspects of medicine
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spelling	iium-670232019-07-31T03:09:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67023/ The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Rohaizat, Munirah Arbon, Paul HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HT51 Human settlements. Communities RA Public aspects of medicine A cross‐sectional study design was created, using the Index of Perceived Community Resilience (IPCR) and Buckner’s Index of Cohesion (BIC) to survey 386 flood evacuees from six communities in Kelantan, Malaysia, in 2015. The respondents were mostly female (54.7%); lived in basic housing (95.6%); average income (55.9%); secondary level schooling (81.1%); not involved with community organisations (95.1%), volunteering activities (91.2%), or emergency teams (96.9%); inexperience with injury during flooding (94%); experienced the emergency disaster (61.6%); and their mean age was 49 years old. Overall, respondents scored a high level of community disaster resilience (CDR) (mean 3.9) and social cohesion (mean 3.79). Also, respondents’ housing type, event of injury during disaster, volunteering in post‐disaster activities, and emergency team participation were significantly associated with CDR (p = 0.001– 0.002), organisational involvement (p = 0.016), and emergency disaster experience (p = 0.028) were significantly associated with social cohesion. The Pearson correlation coefficient results mostly showing a moderate, weak, and one with a strong relationship. There is a strong relationship between community participation (CDR) in events and BIC variables (r = 0.529, p = 0.001). Other analysis shows a moderate but significant relationship with BIC; is open to ideas (r = 0.332, p = 0.001); community has similar values/ideas (r = 0.421, p = 0.001); sense of pride (r = 0.389, p = 0.001); strong leadership (r = 0.339, p = 0.001); positive change (r = 0.484, p = 0.001); and able to handle problems (r = 0.454, p = 0.001). Overall, the results show that respondents had high levels of CDR and social cohesion, while the demographic characteristics show the impact of CDR and social cohesion. In conclusion, the data gives original insight into the level of association between social cohesion and disaster resilience, which could be used as a building block in sustainable disaster recovery. There is a need to explore this further on programmes designed to improve social cohesion across communities. John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2019-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67023/1/The%20association%20between%20social%20cohesion%20and%20community_HSCC%20ISI.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67023/7/67023_The%20association%20between%20social%20cohesion%20and%20community%20disaster%20resilience%20A%20cross-sectional%20study_wos.pdf Mohamed Ludin, Salizar and Rohaizat, Munirah and Arbon, Paul (2019) The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study. Health and Social Care in the community, 7 (3). pp. 621-631. E-ISSN 1365-2524 (In Press) http:// wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/hsc 10.1111/hsc.12674
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spellingShingle	HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HT51 Human settlements. Communities RA Public aspects of medicine Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Rohaizat, Munirah Arbon, Paul The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study
description	A cross‐sectional study design was created, using the Index of Perceived Community Resilience (IPCR) and Buckner’s Index of Cohesion (BIC) to survey 386 flood evacuees from six communities in Kelantan, Malaysia, in 2015. The respondents were mostly female (54.7%); lived in basic housing (95.6%); average income (55.9%); secondary level schooling (81.1%); not involved with community organisations (95.1%), volunteering activities (91.2%), or emergency teams (96.9%); inexperience with injury during flooding (94%); experienced the emergency disaster (61.6%); and their mean age was 49 years old. Overall, respondents scored a high level of community disaster resilience (CDR) (mean 3.9) and social cohesion (mean 3.79). Also, respondents’ housing type, event of injury during disaster, volunteering in post‐disaster activities, and emergency team participation were significantly associated with CDR (p = 0.001– 0.002), organisational involvement (p = 0.016), and emergency disaster experience (p = 0.028) were significantly associated with social cohesion. The Pearson correlation coefficient results mostly showing a moderate, weak, and one with a strong relationship. There is a strong relationship between community participation (CDR) in events and BIC variables (r = 0.529, p = 0.001). Other analysis shows a moderate but significant relationship with BIC; is open to ideas (r = 0.332, p = 0.001); community has similar values/ideas (r = 0.421, p = 0.001); sense of pride (r = 0.389, p = 0.001); strong leadership (r = 0.339, p = 0.001); positive change (r = 0.484, p = 0.001); and able to handle problems (r = 0.454, p = 0.001). Overall, the results show that respondents had high levels of CDR and social cohesion, while the demographic characteristics show the impact of CDR and social cohesion. In conclusion, the data gives original insight into the level of association between social cohesion and disaster resilience, which could be used as a building block in sustainable disaster recovery. There is a need to explore this further on programmes designed to improve social cohesion across communities.
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author	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Rohaizat, Munirah Arbon, Paul
author_facet	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Rohaizat, Munirah Arbon, Paul
author_sort	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar
title	The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study
title_short	The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study
title_full	The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study
title_fullStr	The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study
title_full_unstemmed	The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study
title_sort	association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study
publisher	John Wiley & Sons Ltd
publishDate	2019
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The association between social cohesion and community disaster resilience: a cross‐sectional study

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