The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and factors associated with depressive symptoms among residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Lee, Joohee; Rehner, Tim; Choi, Hwanseok; Bougere, Alan; Osowski, Tom

doi:10.1108/dpm-01-2016-0014

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“…The development of alterations in hematological profile and liver function was part of the risk expected by people who participated in the clean-up exercise (D'Andrea & Reddy, 2013). Also, Lee et al, (2016) conducted a study on the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on depressive health symptoms among residents of Mississippi Coast and related lifestyle. And their findings showed the exposure of the clean-up workers and residents resulted in great depressive symptoms which also disrupted the gulf/ocean-related lifestyle.…”

Section: Response and Clean-up Operations In Event Of Oil Spillagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The health impact of oil spill on the clean-up workers and other humans closer to the spill location were investigated in various researches and findings showed a lot of negative health impacts (Lee et al, 2016;Stanbury et al, 2010;Sholeye et al, 2012;D'Andrea & Reddy, 2013;Shultz et al, 2014;Gill et al, 2012;Jung et al, 2017;Ha et al, 2012;Choi et al, 2016). Peres et al, (2016) found short-and long-term physical, mental, and community health effects on the southern Louisiana women exposed to the oil spill and discovered that they were associated with an increase in self-reported physical health outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing the Effects of Oil Spill on Clean-up Workers and Communities’ Participation in Imo State Nigeria

Isidiho¹,

Burhan²,

Sabran³

et al. 2020

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The problems associated with oil spill clean-up has been of burden to all oil spill stakeholders all over the world and the method of clean-up depends on the type of spill, the volume of spill, the location and weather at the time of clean-up. Generally, while the clean-up of oil spill on the sea involves the use of standard oil boom, foxtail skimmer and dispersion system mounted on an airplane, spill on land can be cleaned with high-pressure system, scooping, and in-situ burning. In Imo State, the clean-up was through in-situ burning, scooping and burying the oil. The communities participated in the clean-up as voluntary services and sometimes for financial gains. The study utilized mixed methods and a total of 376 correctly filled and returned out of 400 administered questionnaires were used and 13 interviews were conducted for this research. Purposive sampling method was utilized for the qualitative as it gave the researcher the opportunity to select informants with deep knowledge and experience coupled with willingness to release the authentic data required for the analysis of the study. The findings show that communities in Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta in Imo state Nigeria actively participated in oil spill clean-ups in their localities whenever there was spill and at the end of it, they suffered great psychological, health and other socio-economic impacts.

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Section: Response and Clean-up Operations In Event Of Oil Spillagementioning

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Section: Response and Clean-up Operations In Event Of Oil Spillagementioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Effects of Oil Spill on Clean-up Workers and Communities’ Participation in Imo State Nigeria

Isidiho¹,

Burhan²,

Sabran³

et al. 2020

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“…depression and anxiety disorder) (Adams et al, 2011;Bromet et al, 2011). The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill had a deleterious effect on psychological well-being and also on the social and cultural life of local coastal residents (Lee et al, 2016). Technological disasters can lead people to hold more negative attitude toward the relevant technologies (Eiser et al, 1989;Verplanken, 1989;Huang et al, 2013;Visschers and Siegrist, 2013), which is the focus of our study.…”

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Public attitudes toward technological hazards after a technological disaster

Liu

Wang

2018

DPM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how the 2015 Tianjin Port explosion – which resulted in more than 100 deaths – changed local residents’ acceptance, perceived benefit and risk and trust related to hazardous goods warehouses and chemical plants (HGWCPs) and how it influenced local residents’ decisions about accepting HGWCPs through the lens of the trust heuristic. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted eight months after the disaster. Respondents were classified into two groups: involved (with direct experience of the explosion) and uninvolved (without direct experience). Their trust in those responsible for HGWCPs, and perceived benefit, perceived risk and acceptance associated with HGWCPs were surveyed. Findings The disaster reduced public acceptance of HGWCPs and trust and increased perceived risk. Trust retained an indirect effect on acceptance through perceived benefit in both groups and a direct effect on acceptance in the involved group. Trust partly accounted for the reduction in acceptance of HGWCPs. Practical implications Results remind the local government of the medium-term psychological consequences of the Tianjin Port explosion (e.g. increased perceived risk and reduced trust) and suggest the importance of building trust in mitigating risk perceptions of relevant technological hazards. Originality/value It represents a valuable addition to the literature on the medium-term psychological consequences of technological disasters and on the public’s decision making about hazardous technologies.

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“…Despite evidence that oil spills bring a unique set of stressors and are associated with mental health effects (Chang et al, 2014;Osofsky et al, 2010), predictors of worry among coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico about ongoing impacts have received little attention from researchers (for an exception, see Lee, Rehner, Choi, Bougere, & Osowski, 2016). In the years after the well causing the DH oil spill was capped, little research has examined the extent to which worry about the health, economic, and social sequelae of the DH oil spill is associated with different types or amounts of indirect exposure, prior traumatic experiences, and other sociodemographic characteristics.…”

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Persistent Risk‐Related Worry as a Function of Recalled Exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Prior Trauma

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Large oil spills are disasters associated with psychological effects for exposed communities. The amount of worry that individuals experience after a disaster may be influenced by many factors, such as the type and extent of exposure to disaster impacts, prior trauma, and sociodemographic characteristics. This study examined the nature and predictors of worry about ongoing impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DH) oil spill reported by Gulf of Mexico coastal residents. A random sample of 2,520 adult residents of Gulf of Mexico coastal counties were administered a telephone survey in 2016, including items about persistent worry and exposure to DH impacts, prior trauma, residence at the time of the spill, and sociodemographic characteristics. Respondents varied in the amount of worry they reported about ongoing health, social, and economic impacts. Controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, higher exposure to the DH oil spill was related to higher levels of worry about ongoing impacts, with past traumatic events related specifically to worry about health impacts. Unexpectedly, those who moved into the region after the spill showed similar levels of worry to residents exposed to the spill, and higher levels than residents who did not recall being exposed to the DH oil spill. This study highlights the impact of the DH oil spill on coastal residents many years after the DH disaster. The findings underscore the need to examine multiple pathways by which individuals experience disasters and for risk researchers to close knowledge gaps about long‐term impacts of oil spills within a multi‐dimensional framework.

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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and factors associated with depressive symptoms among residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Assessing the Effects of Oil Spill on Clean-up Workers and Communities’ Participation in Imo State Nigeria

Assessing the Effects of Oil Spill on Clean-up Workers and Communities’ Participation in Imo State Nigeria

Public attitudes toward technological hazards after a technological disaster

Persistent Risk‐Related Worry as a Function of Recalled Exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Prior Trauma

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