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Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Testing of the Environmental Distress Scale With Indonesian Survivors of a Volcanic Eruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2014

Sri Warsini ,
Petra Buettner ,
Jane Mills ,
Caryn West  and
Kim Usher
Sri Warsini*
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, Australia
Petra Buettner
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Science, Townsville, Australia
Jane Mills
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, Australia
Caryn West
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, Australia
Kim Usher
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, Australia
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Sri Warsini, MMed, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns Queensland 4870 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

Objective

The Mt Merapi volcanic eruption in October 2010 claimed more than 386 lives, injured thousands of survivors, and devastated the surrounding environment. No instrument was available in Indonesia to assess the psychosocial impact on survivors of environmental degradation caused by such natural disasters. We developed, translated, and tested an Indonesian version of the Environmental Distress Scale (EDS) for use as a tool to reliably measure environmental distress related to environmental damage in Indonesia.

Method

The EDS, a prospective translation and psychometric study, was modified for use in a volcano disaster setting in Indonesia; translated into Indonesian; and pilot tested to determine meaning and cultural appropriateness. A test-retest study with 80 survivors of the 2010 Mt Merapi volcanic eruption measured the reliability of the tool.

Results

The Indonesian version of the EDS (I-EDS) captured the content of the original EDS with appropriate adaptations for cultural differences of Indonesian natural disaster survivors.

Conclusions

The I-EDS can be considered a reliable tool for assessing the psychosocial impact of environmental degradation from natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, which might be useful for Indonesian researchers. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2014;0:1–10)

Keywords

distressdisastersenvironmental impactinstrument developmentpsychometrics
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 229 - 238
Copyright
© 2014 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 

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