title: Debriefing with teachers after the Marmara earthquake: an evaluation study.
abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the debriefing meetings conducted after the 1999 earthquakes in Marmara, Turkey. The sample consisted of 265 teachers, 223 of whom attended the debriefing meetings. The personal satisfaction ratings of the teachers who attended the meetings revealed that they found the sessions satisfactory. The results of the comparison between those who reported that they benefited from the meetings and those who felt they did not indicated that the first group had lower scores on all of the psychopathology measures. A comparison between 42 teachers who did not attend the meetings and a randomly chosen group of 45 teachers who did attend revealed that the two groups differed significantly in terms of their post-traumatic stress symptom scores. The findings of the study suggest that, in general, the teachers' debriefing sessions were satisfactory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Baskent University, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nesrin Hisli
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Sahin
authors.forename: Ayşegül Durak
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Batigün
authors.forename: Banu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004189:Disaster Planning; D055866:Earthquakes; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D012066:Relief Work / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching; D014421:Turkey; D014947:Wounds and Injuries