| خلاصه مقاله | Introduction:
Resilience helps to prevent harm and protect adolescents’ health in the case of disaster. The importance of resilience for the prevention, preparedness, response of disaster recovery has increasingly captured the attention of disaster risk management professionals. The concept-based nature of resilience and limited tools available for the assessment of adolescents’ resilience in emergencies and disasters provided the impetus for the current study. The aim therefore was to psychometrically develop and evaluate a questionnaire designed to measure adolescents’ resilience in natural disasters.
Methods and Materials:
This mixed method study was carried out in three phases involving item generation, systematic review (phase one), qualitative analysis (phase two) and the reduction of items (phase three). Next, the psychometric evaluation of the Adolescents’ Resilience in Disaster Tool (ARDT) was conducted.
Results: The initial item pool included 80 items that were reduced to 37 after assessment of the validity (face, content and structure) and reliability. Exploratory Factor Analysis found five factors which affect adolescents’ resilience - helping, trusting in God and hopefulness, adaptability, self-confidence and social support. The internal consistency of α = .86 and ICC = .91 (95% CI: .849 to .948) were desirable.
Results:
The initial item pool included 80 items that were reduced to 37 after assessment of the validity (face, content and structure) and reliability. Exploratory Factor Analysis found five factors which affect adolescents’ resilience - helping, trusting in God and hopefulness, adaptability, self-confidence and social support. The internal consistency of α = .86 and ICC = .91 (95% CI: .849 to .948) were desirable.
Discussion & Conclusions:
the valid and reliable ARDT-37Q questionnaire can provide a rapid assessment for adolescents’ resilience in the 12 to 18-year age group. Identifying the status of adolescents’ resilience and determining the urgency of intervention during disaster situations is highly important. This tool can be used by policymakers and disaster planners to assess and measure the resilience of adolescents’ in addition to their need for further interventions |