@article{ref1,
title="A qualitative narrative study of rescue and recovery workers responding to the terrorist bombing of Oklahoma City's Murrah Building",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2024",
author="Pollio, E. Whitney and Wang, Jennifer and Randle, Edward and Pollio, David E. and North, Carol S.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Much of disaster mental health research uses quantitative methods, focusing on numerical prevalence, services, and outcomes. <br><br>METHODS: Qualitative methods can provide more detailed, rich, and spontaneous insights into personal disaster experiences, yielding important insights beyond deductive methods. This large-scale qualitative narrative study examined experiences of 181 OKC bombing rescue/recovery workers. <br><br>RESULTS: Thematic narrative content of the bombing experience arose from personal accounts of the bomb blast by rescue/recovery workers proceeding chronologically from initial awareness and deployment to harrowing onsite search and rescue/recovery missions to the aftermath with reflections on the bombing. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Beyond disaster recovery/rescue worker stories published in popular media, little other substantive published knowledge on this topic is available, and therefore this research study provides a wealth of new in-depth information that can provide guidance for policy and practice for disaster response.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/JOM.0000000000003140",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000003140"
}