Loss of participation among evacuees aged 20-37 years in the disaster cohort study after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to clarify the characteristics of young evacuees who had missed the Comprehensive Health Check of the Fukushima Health Management Survey (FHMS) after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. The FHMS has been conducted as a prospective cohort study to evaluate the health status of evacuees annually after the great earthquake in 2011. This study focused on the annual participation rate in the Comprehensive Health Check of evacuees aged between 20 and 37 years in 2011 who evacuated due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. The characteristics of subjects who did not participate after the second survey year were identified with a multivariate logistic regression model. The participation rate was estimated at 26.6% (9720 among 36,502 residents) and 15.6

SUBMITTER: Yamamoto K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9665037 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature