A Descriptive Study to Assess the Stress as an Impact of Flood among People Living in Flood Affected Areas in Majuli, Assam

Flooding is the most common of all natural hazards globally. Flood can cause a wide range of negative psychological responses like post traumatic stress disorder. This study was conducted to assess the stress among flood affected people and also to find out the association between stress and selected socio demographic variables. The study followed a quantitative, descriptive survey approach with non-experimental descriptive design. A sample of 200 flood affected people living in Majuli, Assam was selected through purposive sampling techniques. The tools used for the study included Socio-demographic performa and Impact of Event Scale Revised (IES-R) to assess the stress. The result showed that 63% of the flood affected people had high chances of having stress disorder. The chi-squire values of selected demographic variables depicted significant association between stress and numbers of family members and no association was found between stress and other variables. Stress was very common among flood victims. It is a great responsibility of the psychiatric nurses to plan and deliver nursing services to support people who were affected by flooding.