ArticleBMJ open2016
Radiation-related anxiety among public health nurses in the Fukushima Prefecture after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: a cross-sectional study.
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- Sense of Coherence in Nurses: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Risk Perception and Anxiety Regarding Radiation after the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident: A Systematic Qualitative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Pooled it
- A scoping review on the mental health of disaster responders for natural disasters in Japan.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of education on radiation exposure for medical students prior to clinical clerkship.Japanese journal of radiology · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Educational Video Materials for Radiation Education on Nursing Students and Nurses: A Quasi-Experimental Research.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Factors Associated with Public Health Nurses' Anxiety About Accepting Evacuees During Nuclear Disasters: A Cross-Sectional Study in Oita Prefecture, Japan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Association between sense of coherence and health and well-being among older survivors of a natural disaster: a prospective outcome-wide study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Objective stress values during radiation emergency medicine for future human resources: Findings from a survey of nurses.PloS one · 2022Article
- Analysis of the Training Effect of a Nursing Undergraduate Course on the Management of Radiation-Related Health Concerns-A Single Group Experiment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Association of Anxiety over Radiation Exposure and Acquisition of Knowledge Regarding Occupational Health Management in Operation Leader Candidates of Radioactivity Decontamination Workers in Fukushima, Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Modeling reconstruction-related behavior and evaluation of influences of major information sources.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveIn Japan, public health nurses (PHNs) play important roles in managing the health of local residents, especially after a disaster. In this study, we assessed radiation anxiety and the stress processing capacity of PHNs in the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS).
methodsWe conducted a questionnaire survey among the PHNs (n=430) in July of 2015 via postal mail. The questions included demographic factors (sex, age and employment position), knowledge about radiation, degree of anxiety about radiation at the time of the FDNPS accident (and at present), by asking them to answer questions about radiation and the Sense of Coherence-13 (SOC-13). We classified the low and high levels of anxiety by asking them to answer questions about radiation, and compared the anxiety-negative (-) group with the anxiety-positive (+) group.
resultsOf the PHNs, 269 (62.6%) were classified in the anxiety (-) group and 161 (37.4%) were in the anxiety (+) group. When the multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted, the PHNs at the time of the accident (OR: 2.37, p=0.007), current general anxieties about radiation (OR: 3.56, p<0.001), current possession of materials to obtain knowledge about radiation (OR: 2.11, p=0.006) and knowledge of the childhood thyroid cancer increase after the Chernobyl accident (OR: 1.69, p=0.035) were significantly associated with anxiety after the FDNPS accident. The mean SOC-13 was 43.0±7.7, with no significant difference between the anxiety (-) group and anxiety (+) group (p=0.47).
conclusionsOur study suggested that anxiety about radiation was associated with materials and knowledge about radiation in the PHNs in the Fukushima Prefecture 4 years after the FDNPS accident. It is important for PHNs to obtain knowledge and teaching materials about radiation, and radiation education programmes for PHNs must be established in areas that have nuclear facilities.
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