Floods are natural disaster occurred frequently over worldwide including Malaysia. Floods are an overflow or increasing volume of water level which occurred within a specific time and temporary. The objective of this research was to identify the management of flood relief for people who live at Temerloh, Pahang area. Among the objectives includes in this research is to identify the impacts of victims in terms of psychology, next to determine the types of assistance provided to flood victims during and after the disaster and finally to investigate the effectiveness of the assistance provided. A quantitative approach was done in this research by distribution of questionnaires involving 400 respondents. Descriptive analysis and inferential of percentage, frequency and independent sample t-test for study the management of assistance was used in this research. Results showed about 73.3 percent respondent respondents strongly agreed that the phenomenon of flooding lead to emotional stress while others 26.8 percent respondents stated the opposite. In additional, about 42.8 percent respondents agreed that assistance is given inadequate. Besides that, about 52.0 percent respondent disagreed with the statement related disaster relief management is on a satisfactory level. In overall, the management of the assistance provided to the victims was at moderate level
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