The mental health status of children who have been evacuated or migrated from rural areas in Fukushima prefecture after the Fukushima daiichi nuclear power station accident:results from the Fukushima health management survey

• Published in: FUKUSHIMA JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 8 - 16
• Main Authors: Tokunaga, Akiko, Yoshida, Koji, Orita, Makiko, Urata, Hideko, Itagaki, Shuntaro, Mashiko, Hirobumi, Yabe, Hirooki, Maeda, Masaharu, Oishi, Kazuyo, Inokuchi, Shigeru, Iwanaga, Ryoichiro, Tanaka, Goro, Nakane, Hideyuki, Takamura, Noboru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan THE FUKUSHIMA SOCIETY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE 2020; The Fukushima Society of Medical Science
• Subjects: Child; children; Cross-Sectional Studies; Disasters; Fukushima Nuclear Accident; Great East Japan Earthquake; Health Status; Health Surveys; Humans; Japan - epidemiology; mental health status; Original; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; Japan; Fukushima Nuclear Accident; Great East Japan Earthquake; mental health status; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; children

Introduction:We evaluated the mental health status of children residing in Kawauchi village (Kawauchi), Fukushima Prefecture, after the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, based on the children’s experience of the nuclear disaster.Methods:We conducted this cross-sectional s...