TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2024//
TI  - A qualitative narrative study of rescue and recovery workers responding to the terrorist bombing of Oklahoma City's Murrah Building
JO  - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
A1  - Pollio, E. Whitney
A1  - Wang, Jennifer
A1  - Randle, Edward
A1  - Pollio, David E.
A1  - North, Carol S.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1076-2752
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000003140
ID  - ref1
ER  -