Psychological Distress in Responders and Nonresponders in a 5-year Follow-up Health Survey: The RIAS Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with poor health or mental conditions are generally unwilling to participate in the health examinations, and no studies have directly examined the relationship of psychological distress among disaster survivors with participation status to date. The present study thus examined psychosocial differences according to the respondent status in a 5-year follow-up survey among participants in the prospective health surveys on survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster study in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Methods

We analyzed data from 10,203 Japanese survivors aged ≥18 years (mean age, 65.6 years; 38.0% men) and who underwent health examinations at baseline in 2011. Participants were classified into responders and nonresponders according to thei

SUBMITTER: Tsubota-Utsugi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9643786 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature