Mental Health Status of Children After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident | Zendy

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Mental Health Status of Children After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Author(s) -

Hirobumi Mashiko,

Hirooki Yabe,

Masaharu Maeda,

Shuntaro Itagaki,

Yasuto Kunii,

Tetsuya Shiga,

Itaru Miura,

Yuriko Suzuki,

Seiji Yasumura,

Hajime Iwasa,

Shinichi Niwa,

Akira Ohtsuru,

Masafumi Abe

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

asia pacific journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.572

H-Index - 37

eISSN - 1941-2479

pISSN - 1010-5395

DOI - 10.1177/1010539516675702

Subject(s) - fukushima nuclear accident , mental health , nuclear power plant , medicine , environmental health , demography , psychiatry , physics , sociology , nuclear physics

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, might have affected the mental health status of children. To assess the mental health status, we measured the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in 15 274 children (aged 4-15 years). The proportions of those who scored above the cutoff (≥16) of SDQ, reflecting the clinical range of the mental health status, were 25.0% (aged 4-6 years), 22.0% (aged 7-12 years, and 16.3% (aged 13-15 years), which were higher than that in the usual state (9.5%). We also explored the possibility that the distribution on the Fukushima prefectural map of the proportions of those who scored above the cutoff (≥16) of SDQ might correspond with the environmental radiation levels, but there was no significant correlation.

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