Predictors of depressive symptoms following the Great East Japan earthquake: A prospective study

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 161; pp. 47 - 54
• Main Authors: Tsuboya, Toru, Aida, Jun, Hikichi, Hiroyuki, Subramanian, S.V., Kondo, Katsunori, Osaka, Ken, Kawachi, Ichiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2016; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Correlation analysis; Depression; Depression - epidemiology; Depression - etiology; Disaster damage; Disaster Victims - psychology; Earthquake damage; Earthquakes; Family - psychology; Female; Friendship; Health; Health problems; Health services; Humans; Japan; Japan - epidemiology; Male; Medicine; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental health; Natural disaster; Natural disasters; Older people; Property damage; Prospective cohort study; Prospective Studies; Psychiatry; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Psychometrics - methods; Social Support; Surveys and Questionnaires; Symptoms; Japan; Depression; Natural disaster; Disaster damage; Japan; Prospective cohort study

We sought to investigate prospectively the association between exposure to disaster (the 2011 East Japan Earthquake) and change in depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adult survivors. We used two waves of data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES), an ongoing populati...