Workplace destruction and mental health among local nurses 13 months after the Great East Japan Earthquake: associations with PTSD and depression
Yoko Takahashi, Masako Kakizaki, Atsushi Sakuma, Ikki Ueda, Mikika Abe, Ayami Nagao, Hatsumi Yoshii, Hidemitsu Saito, Kazunori Matsumoto · 2026
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Yoko Takahashi and co-authors survey, in a 2026 study, local nurses 13 months after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, asking whether losing their workplace harmed mental health apart from personal losses. Disaster research has centered on home and family loss, not workplace ruin.
A total of 414 nurses in coastal Miyagi Prefecture replied, giving rates of probable post-traumatic stress at 11.7% and depression at 24.6%, shares the authors report. Nurses from tsunami-wrecked hospitals looked worse in raw counts, yet the workplace link faded once personal burdens were counted. Death or loss of a family member stayed the strongest tie to severe stress symptoms.
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| CREATOR | Yoko Takahashi, Masako Kakizaki, Atsushi Sakuma, Ikki Ueda, Mikika Abe, Ayami Nagao, Hatsumi Yoshii, Hidemitsu Saito, Kazunori Matsumoto |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34588 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |