Social support among residents in earthquake area

Objective To review the situation of social support in residents one month after the earthquake in order to provide in formation for rescuework.Methods "Social Support Questionnaire" desined by the authors was applied to 236 residents in three cities one month after Wenchuan earthquake.SPSS 15.0 was used to analyze the data.Results A total of 236 eligible questionnarie swere collected.There were significant differences in scores of support bewteen the types of social support(F=26.38,P<0.01).The first support was sbustance support(4.26±0.65);the second was emotional support(4.06±0.81),and the third was information support(3.82±0.89).There were significant differences in sources of the three types of social support(χ²=312.53,41.61,302.18,P<0.01).The women(4.18±0.74)g ained more emotional support than men(3.92±0.80).The person in ealier adult(3.88±0.88)ga ined the leastem otional support.Conclusion There sidents in earthquake areas gained more material support and emotionl support than information support.The man and the person in the earlie radult gained less emotional support.Much more information and the emotional support should be provided.