School-Based Disaster Preparedness and Response Measures: Awareness and Assessment

Abstract

The study sought to determine the Level of Awareness in terms of preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery and the Level of Assessment in terms of preparedness in normal times and preparedness for response measure of School-based Disaster Preparedness and Response Measure and find the significant relationship of the Levels of Awareness and Assessment of the School-based Disaster Preparedness and Response Measure among the one hundred-fourteen (114) teachers who were taken as respondents through purposive universal sampling from Balingasag Central District. The study employed descriptive correlational research design and utilized DO No. 033, s. 2021 checklist and Toyado's (2022) survey questionnaire as instruments of this study. Mean and SD were used to determine the Levels of Awareness and Assessment on School-based Disaster Preparedness and Response Measure and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient to find the significant relationship between the Levels of Awareness and Assessment. Result revealed that teachers are Highly Aware on their Level of Awareness and Highly Prepared on their Level of Assessment on the Schoolbased Disaster Preparedness and Response Measure and there is a Significant Relationship of their Levels of Awareness and Assessment. Thus, a regular seminar or a quarterly drill is encouraged to be implemented in the school in order to sustain it.