Post-traumatic stress disorder and depression prevalence and associated risk factors among local disaster relief and reconstruction workers fourteen months after the Great East Japan Earthquake: A cross-sectional study

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Sakuma, Atsushi ^a,b   Takahashi, Yoko ^b,c   Ueda, Ikki ^b,c   Sato, Hirotoshi ^a,b   Katsura, Masahiro ^a,b   Abe, Mikika ^b,c   Nagao, Ayami ^b,c   Suzuki, Yuriko ^d   Kakizaki, Masako ^c   Tsuji, Ichiro ^c   Matsuoka, Hiroo ^b,c   Matsumoto, Kazunori ^b,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Disaster Mental Health Care Center   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; Disaster relief worker; Firefighter; Great East Japan Earthquake; Local municipality worker; Medical worker; Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Psychological distress; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DSM-IV; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NATURAL DISASTER; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVOR; WORK ENVIRONMENT; DISASTER; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925400158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0440-y     Document Type: Article

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