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Differences in the Sources of Information and Acquaintance with Instructions between Dimona and the General Population after a Suicide Bomber Event

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Aaron Richman ,
Galit Shohat ,
Yechiel Soffer  and
Yaron Bar-Dayan
Aaron Richman*
Affiliation:
Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR), Jerusalem, Israel
Galit Shohat
Affiliation:
IDF Home Front Command, Israel
Yechiel Soffer
Affiliation:
IDF Home Front Command, Israel
Yaron Bar-Dayan
Affiliation:
IDF Home Front Command, Israel Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
*
Department of Disaster and Emergency MedicineFaculty of Health SciencesBen Gurion University16 Dolev St.Neve SavionOr-Yehuda, Israel E-mail: bardayan@netvision.net.il
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Abstract

A telephone survey among two randomly selected, representative samples of adults was conducted two days after a suicide bomber event in Dimona, Israel. Television, radio, Internet, and newspapers were more common sources of information in the general population, whereas friends, family, and the local authorities were the more common sources of information in Dimona. Higher acquaintance with police instructions and higher knowledge of the exact location of the event were found in the population of Dimona. Authorities must pay attention to this phenomenon and use the correct sources of information in each area in order to achieve better exposure of the target population to the police instructions after a terrorist event.

Keywords

knowledgesources of informationsuicide bomberterrorism
Type
Original Research
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 63 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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