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ReviewPsychiatry and clinical neurosciences2022

Lessons learned from psychosocial support and mental health surveys during the 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake: Establishing evidence-based disaster psychiatry.

Yasuto Kunii, Hitomi Usukura, Kotaro Otsuka, Masaharu Maeda, Hirooki Yabe, Sho Takahashi, Hirokazu Tachikawa, Hiroaki Tomita

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Review in Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yasuto KuniiDepartment of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1569-7819
Hitomi UsukuraDepartment of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Kotaro OtsukaDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.
Masaharu MaedaDepartment of Disaster Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0562-5160
Hirooki YabeRadiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
Sho TakahashiDepartment of Disaster and Community Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2970-6408
Hirokazu TachikawaDepartment of Disaster and Community Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8809-3472
Hiroaki TomitaDepartment of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2628-880X
Tohoku University · JPFukushima Medical University · JPUniversity of Tsukuba · JPIwate Medical University · JP

Funding

the Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support have drawn attention in Japan after the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, with mental health care centers for the affected communities being organized. After the catastrophe, a reconstruction budget was allocated to organize mental health care centers to provide psychosocial support for communities affected by the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake. There were several major improvements in post-disaster mental health measures after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The Disaster Psychiatric Assistance Team system was organized after the earthquake to orchestrate disaster response related to the psychiatric health system and mental health of the affected communities. Special mental health care efforts were drawn to the communities affected by the nuclear power plant accident through Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield Explosives, being succeeded by measures against the coronavirus pandemic. As another new movement after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the number of surveys involving communities affected by disasters has soared. More than 10 times the number of scientific publications were made in English during the decade following the Great East Japan Earthquake, compared with the previous decades. In this review, we examined the results and issues acquired in the 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, proposing evidence-based disaster psychiatry as the direction of future mental health measures related to emergency preparedness and response.

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DisastersEarthquakesPsychiatryHealth SurveysHumansJapanMental HealthPsychosocial Support Systemscohort studiesevidence-based disaster psychiatryGreat East Japan earthquakemental healthpsychosocial support

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PMID35137504
PMCPMC9314661
OpenAlexW4211086641

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