TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Early psychological distress among sufferers after the 2011 Northern Nagano Prefecture Earthquake JO - Psychiatry and the Clinical Neurosciences A1 - Shindo, Masanobu A1 - Kitamura, Hideaki A1 - Tachibana, Akira A1 - Honma, Hiroko A1 - Someya, Toshiyuki SP - 454 EP - 456 VL - 66 IS - 5 N2 - We surveyed 3078 sufferers in Tsunan (Niigata), an intermediate and mountainous area of Japan, after the 2011 Northern Nagano Prefecture Earthquake. More subjects reported fear of the earthquake or related anxiety symptoms and insomnia in Tsunan than in the control group. Female sex and older age were found to be risk factors for poor psychological outcome. Those with risk factors should be carefully followed up.
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LA - en SN - 1323-1316 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2012.02366.x ID - ref1 ER -