Mental health and school-based intervention among adolescent exposed to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami

Okuyama, Junko; Funakoshi, Shunichi; Tomita, Hiroaki; Yamaguchi, Takuhiro; Matsuoka, Hiroo

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.06.012

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“…The mental health of the students was assessed annually for 3 years after the disaster using the CD‐RISC‐10, QIDS‐J, SAS, and IES‐R, which may have provided opportunities for self‐awareness and facilitated help seeking among the students. In addition, counseling was offered for those who requested it or who showed a high risk of mental health problems, which may have fostered skills for coping with stress and facilitated recovery from mental health problems . This situation may have fostered the resilience of the high school students in this study and concurrently improved their depressive symptoms .…”

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“…The data analysis and interpretation of the results were conducted at Miyagi Psychiatric Center; the Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine; and the Department of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. Data analysis and interpretation were performed without access to the raw data to avoid possible divulgence of identifiable information because it was possible that the high school students might attend one of the three facilities, which are in the same prefecture …”

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“…The high school is located close to where the tsunami struck. Immediately after the GEJE, the high school students had left the school and evacuated inland to escape the tsunami …”

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“…Psychiatrists at the Miyagi Psychiatric Center who specialized in adolescent psychiatry provided consultation meetings once a month with the schoolteachers to follow up with the students and conducted interviews with the students when needed. If a student and parent requested, or a student exhibited a serious psychological condition, he or she was referred to the psychiatrist at the Miyagi Psychiatric Center …”

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Longitudinal characteristics of resilience among adolescents: A high school student cohort study to assess the psychological impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake

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“…The high school is located close to where the tsunami struck. Immediately after the GEJE, the high school students had left the school and evacuated inland to escape the tsunami …”

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“…These conditions lasted until prefabricated classrooms were completed in an assigned location 10 km inland from the original school on September 1, 2011 (Okuyama et al 2017). The other high school, referred to as High School B, was located inland, and the damage to the school by the tsunami was minimal.…”

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School-Based Interventions Aimed at the Prevention and Treatment of Adolescents Affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

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Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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How natural disasters affect the psychological state of adolescents has not been well studied. Thus, we examined the effect of a natural disaster on high-school-aged youth and considered the most effective forms of support following such a disaster. We examined students from two high schools that were near the epicenter of the 9.0-magnitude Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck the Tohoku coastal area on March 11, 2011, causing severe damage to the region. The questionnaires measuring depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress reaction (PTSR) was administered to the students 3 times between July 2012 and August 2014; students who scored above the cut-off values of these measures were considered highrisk students. School teachers, nurses, and counselors provided a school-based intervention for all highrisk students identified in the survey. Data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis H-test. Survey data revealed that 860 of the 1,432 (55.9%) high school students were at high risk of psychological trauma in 2012. This rate did not change substantially in the following 2 years, reaching 1,059 of 1,488 (69.1%) in 2013, and 949 of 1,430 (62.7%) in 2014. Depression and PTSR scores were significantly lower after the intervention (for 2nd and 3rd grade students in 2013 and 2014) compared to before (for the initial 2012 survey). However, there were no significant differences between the 1st grade students for all three years. Thus, school-based interventions involving psychological testing and interviews might reduce the rates of depression and PTSR in high school students.

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Risk Factors of Post-traumatic Stress and Depressive Disorders in Longmenshan Adolescents After the 2013 Lushan Earthquake

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2018

Community Ment Health J

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This study examined the severity of post-traumatic stress and depressive disorders in Longmenshan adolescents after the 2013 Lushan earthquake, as well as relationships among earthquake-related exposure, post-earthquake negative factors, previous exposure to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and level of earthquake impact (city). A cross-sectional survey was conducted among adolescents in Lushan (n = 1416), Baoxing (n = 1102) and Tianquan (n = 1265) at 3 years after the Lushan earthquake. Respondents were evaluated using the Earthquake Experience Scale, the Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Checklist (ASLEC), the Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES-13), and the Depression Self-Rating Scale (KADS-6). High levels of post-traumatic stress and depression symptoms were found among adolescents in the most heavily affected cities, and these symptoms were more severe in respondents exposed to the 2008 earthquake. PTSD correlated most strongly with earthquake exposure, whereas depression correlated most strongly with psychosocial stressors following the event.

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Mental health and school-based intervention among adolescent exposed to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Longitudinal characteristics of resilience among adolescents: A high school student cohort study to assess the psychological impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Longitudinal characteristics of resilience among adolescents: A high school student cohort study to assess the psychological impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake

School-Based Interventions Aimed at the Prevention and Treatment of Adolescents Affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

Risk Factors of Post-traumatic Stress and Depressive Disorders in Longmenshan Adolescents After the 2013 Lushan Earthquake

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