Disasters and emergencies: knowledge and psychological impact

This study deals with the levels of knowledge about disaster situations in a group of students of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Havana. It owes its importance and novelty, essentially, to the fact that in Cuba, few researches have been carried out on this subject and none of these have been with students of our center, which will allow identifying, for the first time, which are the levels of knowledge that this group of students have on this subject. A non-experimental descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with the aim of identifying the levels of knowledge about disaster situations, as well as identifying the main disaster situations experienced by them, identifying the main sources of information through which they have acquired knowledge and the main psychological consequences triggered by these events. Two questionnaires and a structured individual interview were applied.