Psychosocial Intervention Programs in Natural Disaster Affected Individuals: A Systematic Review

Year 2023, Issue: 3, 41 - 51, 31.10.2023

Tuba Çömez İkican , Emre Mor

https://doi.org/10.26650/CURARE.2023.1293930

Abstract

The aim of this study is to systematically analyze the psychosocial intervention programs applied to individuals affected by disasters.
This study was conducted through a systematic review of the databases including “Web of Science Core Collection, Pubmed, Science Direct, Ovid, Scopus, CINAHL, Embase, Cochrane, Google Scholar, and Tubitak-ULAKBIM.” Relevant articles between January 1999 and April 2023 were retrospectively analyzed.
There are 27 national and international studies related to the subject. Two researchers evaluated this study using the Joanna Briggs Institute’s control list . A review profile was presented in the context of the “PRISMA-Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” schema.
As a result of this systematic review, it was observed that psychosocial intervention programs carried out after a disaster are highly effective.

Keywords

Disaster, psychosocial intervention, systematic review

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