Knowledge and Awareness towards Emergency Response Preparedness among Large Worship Centres in South

Appropriate information and awareness are lively in disaster preparation and alleviation practices to ensure their influence. The study assessed the information and awareness towards emergency answer preparedness with large worship centres in the South-South domain of Nigeria. Churches with large places capacity (>1500), signifying large weekend attendance of no inferior (1000) congregants that cut across Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Edo states, were picked for the study. With the aid of a questionnaire and explanatory statistics, we collected and analysed the dossier for the study respectively. The effect showed that 72.7% of the accused agreed, “Emergency preparedness and accident response include an adequate plan for fear that an occurrence". The worship centres indicated they were careful (60.1%) for emergency occurrences with able knowledge about various dangers (60.1%). The findings disclosed that worship centres had not witnessed hazardous occurrences recently (58.5%) and seen electrical damage (53.5%) as ultimate common emergency at the centres. Mechanical collapse (49.1%) was indicated as the basic cause of emergency at the centres, and most accused to emergencies are volunteers. Overall, skilled was adequate information and awareness about crisis response preparedness practices with the worship centres. The study recommended the need for worship centres to cultivate a common, adept, coordinated multi-sectoral approach comprising all-hazard and hazard-particular measures to ensure readiness for all types of emergencies.

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