Knowledge, attitude and practices of coastal communities in Trinidad and Tobago about tsunamis

Kanhai, La Daana K.; Singh, Delezia; Lauckner, Bruce; Ebi, Kristie L.; Chadee, Dave D.

doi:10.1007/s11069-015-2138-3

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“…Besides the suite of papers focused on the assessment of risk perception that we describe in this review, several other studies were carried out in the last 15 years, that deal with tsunami risk from the perspectives of preparedness, knowledge, awareness, evacuation, local culture traits, attitudes and practices in use in different regions (e.g., Paton et al, 2008;Achuthan, 2009;Paton et al, 2009;Bird et al, 2011;Goto et al, 2012;Esteban et al, 2013;Kanhai et al, 2016;Nakasu et al, 2018;Makinoshima et al, 2020;Martinez and Toulkeridis, 2020;Sutton et al, 2020;Tanner and Reynolds, 2020;Bailey and Mahutonga, 2021;Hawthorn et al, 2021;Lindell et al, 2022). However, we do not include these papers in our analysis as they are out of our review focus.…”

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Tsunami risk perception, a state-of-the-art review with a focus in the NEAM region

2022

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Large-scale coastal urban sprawl, development of tourist accommodations and industrial maritime poles have highly increased the tsunami risk to people living and/or traveling along the coasts of our planet. The disastrous tsunamis in the Indian Ocean (2004) and in the Pacific Ocean (2011), as well as a suite of other damaging events worldwide, have encouraged International Institutions, first of all UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, National Governments and Local Communities to implement Tsunami Warning Systems (TWS), to raise awareness on tsunami risk, and to create a multilevel risk governance. In this framework, research on tsunami risk perception plays a key role. The results of these studies should be taken into account in designing risk mitigation programs and tools (such as drills, activities with local communities, emergency plans, etc.). This paper presents a review of such studies, carried out in several countries worldwide through many thousands of interviews performed with different techniques. Most tsunami risk perception studies were carried out in the regions where the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System and the Pacific Ocean one (PTWS) operate. In the NEAMTWS (North-East Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas Tsunami Warning Systems) region, only few specific studies were conducted, mostly within the EU-funded ASTARTE project (2013–2017) and more recently in a few extensive surveys on tsunami risk perception conducted in Italy between 2019 and 2021. Although the twenty-three studies analyzed in our review show a strong heterogeneity of methodological approaches and population samples, they allow us to outline some general considerations on tsunami risk as perceived by people in the different regions of the world. With the help of a table, we schematically summarized the emerging strengths, weaknesses and lessons learned in the twenty-three papers, noting an increase in the number of such studies in the last 5 years. The surveys were mostly concentrated in high-risk areas and focused on local residents. Some differences emerged depending on the memory of past tsunamis, education level, and local cultures. This provides useful hints for sound citizen-based tsunami risk reduction actions, including improved risk communication aimed at increasing the resilience of tsunami-prone populations. The need for increasing the assessment of tourists’ tsunami risk perception, and for a more homogeneous survey strategy also emerge from our analysis.

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Tsunami risk perception, a state-of-the-art review with a focus in the NEAM region

2022

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“…The knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) survey is a powerful tool that can be used to determine these criteria in groups or populations regarding a wide range of social issues [10]. Many of these surveys have been conducted in the Caribbean region ranging in topics from public health epidemiology such as studies on dengue and leptospirosis [11] [12] to environmental issues such as climate change and tsunami readiness [13] [14] but to date no studies have been conducted on road traffic collisions. Therefore, the use of KAP surveys has now become a standard tool to evaluate population awareness and to determine behaviour change [15].…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among Drivers in Trinidad, West Indies

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Singh-Gopaul²,

Sutherland³

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Few studies have been conducted on the incidence and factors which contribute to road traffic collisions in Trinidad. In order to fill this gap in knowledge, we conducted knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) study among drivers to determine which factors contributed to these accidents. A questionnaire was developed and administered using a cross-sectional approach among 3000 persons living in 5 different areas of Trinidad. The collected data were analysed using SPSS version 22, t-test and multivariate analysis. Of the 2998 respondents, at least 572 (19.1%) had been involved in one or more road collisions. While only 46.7% of respondents always wore seat belts, approximately 93% believed strongly that their use was essential for safety-a 3-fold increase in that found in a previous study. The multiple regression analysis indicated that attitude and age were significantly associated with accidents and increased risk for accidents. The results showed that alcohol consumption, use of mobile phones while driving, speed, and age were significantly (p > 0.001) associated with accidents. In conclusion, most respondents were aware of traffic laws and regulations, but their knowledge and practice often diverged. However the improvement in attitude to seat-belt wearing suggests that a holistic driver education program may improve driver practice and adherence to the road traffic regulations in Trinidad.

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“…However, few studies have examined coastal residents' knowledge of basic tsunami facts-let alone evaluated the effectiveness of tsunami education materials in communicating these basic facts. For example, Dengler (2005) and Kanhai et al (2016) reported data on residents' knowledge of some basic tsunami facts, but neither study evaluated specific hazard education materials. Buylova et al (2020) assessed coastal residents' self-reported knowledge of eight different aspects of tsunami hazard, but this study also did not evaluate specific hazard education materials.…”

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Evaluation of hazard brochures using topic viewing durations: Application to tsunami evacuation brochures

Lindell

Jung

Prater³

et al. 2023

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This study describes a novel method of assessing risk communication effectiveness by reporting an evaluation of a tsunami information brochure by 90 residents of three Pacific coast communities that are vulnerable to a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami—Commencement Bay, Washington; Lincoln City, Oregon; and Eureka, California. Study participants viewed information that was presented in DynaSearch, an internet‐based computer system that allowed them to view text boxes and tsunami inundation zone maps. DynaSearch recorded the number of times each text box or map was clicked and the length of time that it was viewed. This information viewing phase was followed by questionnaire pages assessing important aspects of tsunami hazard and sources of tsunami warnings. Participants gave the longest click durations to what to do in the emergency period during earthquake shaking and in its immediate aftermath before a tsunami arrives—topics that should be displayed prominently in tsunami brochures and emphasized in talks to community groups. The smallest adjusted click durations were associated with advance preparations for a tsunami—topics that can be posted on websites whose URLs are printed in the brochures.

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Knowledge, attitude and practices of coastal communities in Trinidad and Tobago about tsunamis

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

Tsunami risk perception, a state-of-the-art review with a focus in the NEAM region

Tsunami risk perception, a state-of-the-art review with a focus in the NEAM region

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among Drivers in Trinidad, West Indies

Evaluation of hazard brochures using topic viewing durations: Application to tsunami evacuation brochures

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