This study examines the factors that are likely to influence emergency managers’ willingness and ability to report to work after a catastrophic event using the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake threat as an example. The population approached for participation in this study was state-level emergency managers in Oregon and Washington, the areas anticipated to be the most impacted by the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. Concept mapping was utilized to elucidate factors influencing emergency managers’ ability and willingness to report to work following a catastrophic earthquake, as well as to identify specific strategies for addressing these factors to facilitate reporting to work. The six-step concept mapping process (i.e., preparation, generation, structuring, representation, interpretation, and utilization) is a structured and integrated mixed-method process that employs both qualitative and quantitative components to gather ideas and concepts of participants, and subsequently produces visual representation of these ideas and concepts through multivariate statistical methods (Caracelli and Green in Eval Program Plan 12(1):45–52, 1993; Kane and Trochim in Concept mapping for planning and evaluation, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 2007). Results influence across a wide range of the levels of the ecological framework for both ability (transit barriers and infrastructure impacts, family/pet health and safety, social support and preparedness, work-related influences, personal health and resources, professional obligations, and location) and willingness (family/community preparedness and safety, emergency management responsibility and professionalism, motivation to come to work, transit barriers and infrastructure impacts, professional contribution, physical and mental health, worksite operations: structure and process, family first, personal contribution and history).

本研究以卡斯卡迪亚俯冲带地震威胁为例，研究了可能影响紧急事件管理人员的意愿和在灾难性事件后报告工作能力的因素。参与该研究的人群是俄勒冈州和华盛顿州的州级紧急事务管理人员，预计该地区受卡斯卡迪亚俯冲带地震的影响最大。概念图被用来阐明影响紧急事件管理人员的能力和意愿的因素，以及在发生灾难性地震后报告工作的意愿，以及确定解决这些因素的具体策略以促进报告工作。六步概念映射过程（即准备，生成，结构化，表示，解释，（和利用）是一个结构化和综合的混合方法过程，该过程使用定性和定量成分来收集参与者的想法和概念，然后通过多元统计方法（在Eval计划计划12中的Caracelli和Green来产生这些想法和概念的视​​觉表示） （1）：45-52，1993； Kane和Trochim，《规划和评估的概念图》，Sage出版社，千橡，2007年）。结果对能力的广泛影响都在生态框架的各个层面上（过境障碍和基础设施影响，家庭/宠物健康与安全，社会支持与准备，与工作相关的影响，个人健康与资源，职业义务和位置） ）和意愿（家庭/社区的准备和安全，