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ABSTRACT
Flash flood occured in Garut on September 20, 2016 and became the
worst flood ever in Garut. That disaster caused trauma to people who experienced
it, including adolescents. Therefore, its necessary to know how the adolescents
perception about the flash flood which they experienced. The purpose of this study
was to determine the perception of adolescents about the flash flood in the Post
Evacuation Gandasari, Cilawu, Garut.
The type of this research was descriptive qualitative. The sampling
technique used in this research was purposive sampling with the limited number
of participants after the data was saturated. Six adolescents were willing to be the
participants in the study by the age of 13-17 years old. The data were obtained by
conducting semi-structured interview and were analyzed by using content
analysis.
This research found five themes: Feelings of shock, fear, disbelief, sadness
and worry about events, flood-obsessed thoughts, boredom living in Refugee
Posts, lack of support from local government and the need for trauma healing
facilities. From these findings, it can be concluded that the trauma healing should
be aplied routinely to the participants to overcome the fear of the flood, joint
activities in camps such as mutual help, study group, sports together or other
activities should be held to reduce the boredom, and the Local Government
should soon provide official written information about the certainty of residents'
dwelling; whether they will stay in the post evacuation forever or a new home will
be built for them.
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