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. 2025 Apr 11:13:1540743.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1540743. eCollection 2025.

Instruments for the assessment of disaster management among healthcare professionals: a scoping review

Sara Elshami  1   2 , Ola Yakti  1 , Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim  1 , Ahmed Awaisu  1 , Mohamed Sherbash  2 , Banan Mukhalalati  1
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Instruments for the assessment of disaster management among healthcare professionals: a scoping review

Sara Elshami et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Objectives: The recent disasters have highlighted the importance of healthcare professionals (HCPs) in aiding communities and maintaining consistent services, prompting a global reconsideration of disaster preparedness approaches. This scoping review aimed to identify and evaluate the psychometric properties of the available instruments that measure disaster preparedness and readiness among HCPs.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted using five concepts: disasters, health personnel, preparedness, management, and questionnaire. Three databases were searched for studies published in English. The identified instruments were summarized according to disaster type, disaster management phase, measurement scope/context, and healthcare discipline. The psychometric properties were evaluated according to content validity, response process, internal structure, relation to other variables, and consequences.

Results: The Emergency Preparedness Information Questionnaire (EPIQ) was the most commonly used instrument, while the Provider Response to Emergency Pandemic (PREP) and the Korean version of the Disaster Preparedness Evaluation Tool (DPET) were the most valid instruments. Most instruments have undergone limited psychometric evaluations, primarily focusing on content and internal structure validations, with response process, relation to other variables, and consequences not frequently reported.

Conclusion: The review highlights the lack of well-developed assessment instruments for disaster preparedness in healthcare disciplines, highlighting the need for future research to develop and thoroughly validate such instruments.

Systematic review registration: https://www.researchregistry.com/browse-the-registry#registryofsystematicreviewsmeta-analyses/registryofsystematicreviewsmeta-analysesdetails/638dbba71e82b30021c02680/.

Keywords: assessment instruments; disaster management; healthcare professionals; reliability; validity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision.

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