Improving Emergency Preparedness Among 9/11 Exposed Population: Implementation and Evaluation of an Emergency Preparedness Intervention

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Emergency Preparedness

Treatments: Behavioral: Informational brochure on household emergency preparedness; Behavioral: Phone-based household emergency preparedness

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06737510

18-150

Details and patient eligibility

About

A two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial will be conducted to compare the effectiveness of a phone-based household emergency preparedness intervention with a mailed informational brochure on household emergency preparedness amongst a sample of World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees residing within New York City.

Full description

An intervention to enhance household emergency preparedness was developed to include the following topics: (1) an introduction to why emergency preparedness is important; (2) definition of what a disaster is; (3) family communication and evacuation plan (including, what is a family communication plan, why you should have one, communication plan checklist, family communication card); (4) disaster supplies (including, what types of supplies are needed, how long supplies should last, supply checklist; assembling a go bag , and storing supplies); and (5) The brochure included several resources, including disaster contact numbers for emergency and non-emergency calls: 911 or 311,, NYC Emergency Management, as well as website for additional information of preparedness: NYC.gov/hazards, which includes information specific to New York City hurricane evacuation zones.

The phone-based intervention consisted of a 15 - 20 minutes talk session completed over the phone following the format and topics noted above. The informational brochure intervention followed the format and topic above and was mailed to participants during the intervention period.

Enrollment: 707 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. English or Spanish speaking World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees aged 18 or older at the time of 9/11 residing in New York City.

2. Completed Wave 4 (2015-2016)

3. Those who are not rescue/recovery workers in either the NYPD or FDNY.

Exclusion criteria

1. World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees under the age of 18 at the time of 9/11

2. Those with proxy interview at Wave 1

3. Enrollee was a rescue and recovery work affiliated with FDNY or NYPD at Wave 1

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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707 participants in 2 patient groups

Phone-based household emergency preparedness

Experimental group

Description:

A phone-based intervention will consist of 15 - 20 minutes discussion covering the following topics: (1) an introduction to why emergency preparedness is important; (2) definition of what a disaster is; (3) family communication plan (including, what is a family communication and evacuation plan, why you should have one, communication plan checklist, including a family communication card); (4) disaster supplies (including, what types of supplies are needed, how long supplies should last, supply checklist, and storing supplies); and (5) resources (including providing NYC Emergency Management website: NYC.gov/hazards, i which includes specific information related to the participants New York City hurricane evacuation zones) .

Treatment:

Behavioral: Phone-based household emergency preparedness

Informational brochure on household emergency preparedness

Experimental group

Description:

An informational brochure will be mailed to participants and will cover the following topics: (1) an introduction to why emergency preparedness is important; (2) definition of what a disaster is; (3) family communication plan (including, what is a family communication and evacuation plan, why you should have one, communication plan checklist, family communication card); (4) disaster supplies (including, what types of supplies are needed, how long supplies should last, supply checklist, and storing supplies, including preparing a go bag); and (5) resources (including disaster contact numbers for emergency and non-emergency calls (911 and 311), how to register for emergency notifications ("Notify NCY"), NYC Emergency Management, as well as a website for additional information on preparedness (NYC.gov/hazards) that includes New York City hurricane evacuation zones .

Treatment:

Behavioral: Informational brochure on household emergency preparedness