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AUTHOR
Hiroaki Tomita
Post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake: a qualitative study
Background Few studies exploring the actual practices implemented for long-term mental health and psychosocial support after a natural disaster have been published. This study aimed to reveal (1) the types of activities that were actually provided as mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in the long-term phase after the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and (2) the problems that must be addressed to provide post-disaster MHPSS activities. Methods An open-ended questionnaire was sent to organizations in the Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures that were potentially involved in providing MHPSS to communities affected by the GEJE. The organizations were asked to describe their act…
Experiences of perinatal women and public healthcare providers in a community affected by the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami: Concerns that must be considered for the mental healthcare of perinatal women in postdisaster settings
Abstract Particular support needs of perinatal women in a disaster have been difficult to grasp through preexisting quantitative epidemiological studies. This study aimed to extract concerns that must be considered for perinatal women's mental healthcare in postdisaster settings based on lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Narrative messages regarding protective and risk factors for mothers' mental health from a representative population of mothers who had given birth and all official maternal caregivers, in a coastal town devastated by the catastrophe were subjected to qualitative analyses. Eight concerns were extracted as specific support needs: (1) improve information pathways,…
Additional file 1: of Post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake: a qualitative study
Table S1. Activities conducted as mental health and psychosocial support after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The table summarizes 240 sentences regarding mental health and psychosocial support activities reported by the 107 organizations, which were classified into seven main categories using the content analysis. (XLSX 1209 kb)