@article{ref1,
title="Access, use and completion of a brief disaster mental health intervention among Hispanics, African-Americans and Whites affected by Hurricane Ike",
journal="Journal of telemedicine and telecare",
year="2013",
author="Price, Matthew and Davidson, Tatiana M. and Andrews, Jeannette O. and Ruggiero, Kenneth J.",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="70-74",
abstract="African-Americans and Hispanics are disproportionally affected by disasters. We evaluated differences in the use and completion of a web-based mental health intervention, Disaster Recovery Web (DRW), by White, African-American and Hispanic adults in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Approximately one year after the hurricane, a telephone survey was carried out with adults from Galveston and Chambers counties. A total of 1249 adults participated in the survey (80% White, 14% African-American and 6% Hispanic). Mental health and mental health service utilization were assessed. Whites were more likely to have previously used the Internet to obtain general health information than African-Americans or Hispanics (P < 0.001). A logistic regression was used to identify differences in the use of the Internet intervention after controlling for covariates. There were no differences in rates of non-use and dropout attrition between Whites, African-Americans and Hispanics. Thus the findings suggest that web-based mental health interventions can be used to reach African-American, Hispanic and White adults at similar rates after a disaster.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1357-633X",
doi="10.1177/1357633X13476230",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357633X13476230"
}