Social support improves mental health among the victims relocated to temporary housing following the great east Japan earthquake and Tsunami

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 241-247

  Koyama, Shihoko ^a   Aida, Jun ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Kondo, Naoki ^c   Subramanian, S V ^b   Ito, Kanade ^a   Kobashi, Gen ^d   Masuno, Kanako ^c   Kondo, Katsunori ^e,f   Osaka, Ken ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster victims; Psychological distress; Resettlement approach; Social support; The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER VICTIM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY SHELTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPAN; KESSLER PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS SCALE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TSUNAMI; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOUSING; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER VICTIMS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84916216097     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.234.241     Document Type: Article

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