title: Resilience-rhetoric to reality: a systematic review of intervention studies after disasters.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This report aimed to examine the literature regarding evidence about community-based interventions that use the concept of resilience to increase positive health outcomes after disaster.
  
  
  METHODS
  A search was conducted of databases; gray literature, public health journals, and available key journals focused on disaster, emergency, and trauma from inception to December 2013. Excluded were non-English publications, only about children or adolescents, or a commentary or theoretical discussion on resilience.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From a total of 1880 records, excluding duplicates, 8 studies were found. Exclusions included participants younger than age 18 years (n=74), non-English (n=40), nonempirical (n=265), not referring to disaster (n=188), not a public health intervention (n=319), and not related to an intervention targeting resilience (n=890).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This systematic review highlighted a gap in the evidence relating to interventions targeting the resilience of adults who have experienced a disaster. The results were mixed in relation to information provision but promising for strategies that promote social interactions or develop community competence. Future studies could explore the ability of interventions to build the intrinsic capacity of a system, community, or society at risk of a disaster to adapt and survive.
authors.affiliation: 1School of Health Sciences,University of South Australia,Adelaide,South Australia.
authors.forename: Gisela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: van Kessel
authors.affiliation: 2Southgate Institute for Health,Society and Equity,and School of Medicine,Flinders University,Adelaide,South Australia & Jack Brockhoff Child Health & Wellbeing Program,University of Melbourne.
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: MacDougall
authors.affiliation: 3Jack Brockhoff Child Health & Wellbeing Program,Centre for Health Equity,University of Melbourne,Melbourne,Victoria.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gibbs
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks; D004190:Disasters; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006801:Humans; D058996:Quality Improvement; D055500:Resilience, Psychological