Disaster reanimatology potentials : A structural interview study in Armenia

ABSTRACT

The study of a disaster which has accurred cannot using the traditional techniques as it is not possible to conceive or conduct controlled, randomized experiments for such an event. Paper I of this series described non-experimental, scientific methodologies which were applied to study the detection-extrication-resucitatioj activities which occurred following the devastating 1988 earthquake in the Republic of Armenia, USSR. This paper critically evaluates the methodologies used for the Armenia study and proposes modification in these methods for application to the study of future disasters.(AU)