@article{ref1,
title="Disaster victim identification: psychological distress and posttraumatic stress in dentists after the 2011 Fukushima disaster",
journal="Psychiatry interpersonal and biological processes",
year="2018",
author="Shigemura, Jun and Someda, Hidetoshi and Tokuno, Shinichi and Nagamine, Masanori and Tanichi, Masaaki and Araki, Yoshiyuki and Nagakawa, Shinji and Saito, Taku and Tsumatori, Gentaro and Itabashi, Jin and Kanno, Akihiro",
volume="81",
number="1",
pages="85-92",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the correlates of psychological responses in dentists who conducted disaster victim identification (DVI) in Fukushima following the 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. <br><br>METHOD: Self-report questionnaires were administered to 49 male dentists six to nine months after the disaster. Psychological distress and posttraumatic stress were measured using the General Health Questionnaire-30 (GHQ-30) and Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), respectively. Independent variables included sociodemographic characteristics, participant disaster exposures, DVI-related exposures, and fear of radiation exposure during DVI. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was performed to examine independent-dependent variable relations. <br><br>RESULTS: Thirty-eight participants (77.6%) had examined ≥ 40 corpses, 20 (40.8%) reported ≥ 4 corpse-related exposures, and six (12.2%) reported ≥ 5 gruesome corpse exposures. Mean (SD) GHQ-30 and IES-R scores were 5.08 (5.31) and 9.90 (10.1), respectively. Higher levels of psychological distress were associated with younger age (adjusted β = -0.29), extensive property loss (β = 0.34), and anxiety for the future (β = 0.33). Higher levels of posttraumatic stress were associated with extensive property loss (adjusted R<sup>2</sup> = 17.7%, β = 0.30). Neither outcome was associated with DVI-related exposures or fear of radiation exposure during DVI (p < 0.05). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Dentists' psychological burden was associated with disaster, but not DVI, exposures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2747",
doi="10.1080/00332747.2017.1297667",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2017.1297667"
}