@article{ref1,
title="Post-traumatic stress disorder, food insecurity, and social capital after the 2017 coastal El Niño flooding among mothers from Piura, Peru: a mixed method study",
journal="PLOS global public health",
year="2024",
author="Culquichicón, Carlos and Astudillo-Rueda, David and Niño-Garcia, Roberto and Martinez-Rivera, Raisa N. and Tsui, Nicole Merino and Gilman, Robert H. and Levy, Karen and Lescano, Andres G.",
volume="4",
number="4",
pages="e0002996-e0002996",
abstract="In order to understand the impacts in the post-disaster scenario of the 2017 El Niño events in the Piura region-Peru, we examined post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), food insecurity (FI), and social capital (SC) across three-time points in mothers in highly affected areas. In the Piura, Castilla, and Catacaos districts, we studied mothers combining mixed-method assessments at three (June-July 2017), eight and 12 months after the flooding. Each outcome was measured with the PTSD-Checklist-Civilian (PCL-C), the Household-Food-Insecurity-Access-Scale (HFIAS), the Adapted-Social-Capital-Assessment-Tool (SASCAT) surveys. In-depth interviews at the first evaluation were also conducted. At the first evaluation, 38.1% (n = 21) of 179 mothers reported PTSD; eight months and one year after the flooding, it dropped to 1.9% and virtually zero, respectively. Severe FI also declined over time, from 90.0% three months after the flooding to 31.8% eight months after, to 13.1% one year after. Conversely, high-cognitive SC was increased three months after the flooding (42.1%) and much greater levels at eight and 12 months after (86.7% and 77.7%, respectively). High levels of PTSD and severe FI three months after the flooding consistently decreased to nearly zero one-year post-disaster. High levels of high-cognitive SC may have helped mothers to recover from PTSD and FI in Piura.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2767-3375",
doi="10.1371/journal.pgph.0002996",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002996"
}