Mental health and related factors after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Yokoyama, Yukari ^a,b   Otsuka, Kotaro ^a   Kawakami, Norito ^c   Kobayashi, Seiichiro ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a   Tannno, Kozo ^a   Onoda, Toshiyuki ^a   Yaegashi, Yumi ^a   Sakata, Kiyomi ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; K6 SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELOCATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVOR; TSUNAMI; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; DISASTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84904811655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102497     Document Type: Article

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