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My topic: Emergency Preparedness for Children. I will focus on preparedness for Children to identify their needs as normal children or children with special needs. How are their parents are prepared? Are they trained and supported to develop a family emergency plan?
The assignment:
Place your most current, refined Research Hypothesis (or specific Research Question) for your final proposal here.
Include your current, developing annotated bibliography (and copies of the pdf's if available as a pdf package) with the references in the APA format. You MAY include a brief statement of the literature foundation (background) to support the rationale for your choice and stated question AFTER the Hypothesis/Question statement.
Expect to have ten to fifteen references accumulated and annotated by this point in your process. (You can add from the old Annotated bibliography if they are good)
All articles Must be accessible online. Peer-reviewed academic or scientific papers of recent publication (five to ten years old).
See this website and use it as a guideline for how to make the Annotated Bibliography: https://writingcommons.org/open-text/research-methods-methodologies/integrate-evidence/summarize-paraphrase-sources/246-create-an-annotated-bibliography
And this is an example of the annotated bibliography: https://d.lib.rochester.edu/cinderella/text/cinderella-romance-novels-an-annotated-bibliography
I attached my old annotated bibliography of five (5) papers with my adviser comments in the last page. It was not that good, but you can take a look.
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Running head: DISASTER MANAGEMENT RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS STATEMENT
Disaster Management Research Hypothesis Statement
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Research Question: Physically able children, as well as children with special needs, have to
learn about emergency preparedness during disasters. The research question is how well are the
parents prepared to handle disasters? Are they trained and supported to develop a family
emergency plan?
Hypothesis: There is a significant gap of knowledge in both the children and families
concerning emergency preparedness. Teachers also lack relevant skills which they can share with
children about emergency preparedness.
If parents, teachers, and children fail to have adequate information about what they
should do during disasters, then, it is hypothesized that this might increase harm on children.
Children with special needs are more likely to suffer when compared to physically abled children
due to mobility issues, anxiety, and communication challenges. Overall, death rates of children
during disasters are alarming. Also, the severe injuries that children incur interfere with their
growth and development. A systematic review of previous studies provides adequate information
concerning emergency preparedness.
Back, E., Cameron, C., & Tanner, T. (2009). Children and Disaster Risk Reduction:
Taking stock and moving forward. Children in a Changing Climate Research,
UNICEF, p20.
The authors of this article emphasize that children should be safe in high-risk
areas that are prone to disasters such as Kansas, Bolivia, and Zimbabwe. The authors
point out that emergency preparedness can only be achieved with disaster risk reduction
programs that are child-led. In this study, the researchers used case studies to demonstrate
how the awareness of preparation in initiatives like educative forums and good hygiene
practices prevent disasters like disease epidemics from occurring. The use of real-life
DISASTER MANAGEMENT RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS STATEMENT
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illustrations in this research article enhances its credibility, and this might be an
encouragement to parents and communities that disaster reduction is manageable through
proper preparation.
Boon, H. J., Brown, L. H., Tsey, K., Speare, R., Pagliano, P., Usher, K., & Clark, B. (2011).
School Disaster Planning for Children with Disabilities: A Critical Review of the
Literature. International Journal of Special Education, 26(3), 223-237.
In this article, the researchers are addressing academic institutions and the
governments concerning emergency planning disasters. The researchers have established
that there is leniency in the development and implementation of emergency preparedness
on climate changes in schools. To test the readiness of schools in the scope of disaster
planning, the researchers performed a critical review of related literature. The findings
showed ...
