Longitudinal association between time-varying social isolation and psychological distress after the Great East Japan Earthquake

The association between social isolation and psychological distress among disaster survivors is inconclusive. In addition, because these previous studies were cross-sectional in design, the longitudinal association between time-varying social isolation and psychological distress was not clear. The p...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2016-03, Vol.152, p.96-101
Main Authors: Sone, Toshimasa, Nakaya, Naoki, Sugawara, Yumi, Tomata, Yasutake, Watanabe, Takashi, Tsuji, Ichiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Correlation analysis
Disasters
Earthquakes
Emotional disorders
Female
Health
Health planning
Humans
Japan
Japan - epidemiology
Longitudinal Studies
Longitudinal study
Male
Middle Aged
Natural disasters
Prevention
Psychological distress
Public health
Social change
Social isolation
Social Isolation - psychology
Social sciences
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survivors - psychology
Survivors - statistics & numerical data
Time Factors
Victim
Young Adult
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Summary:The association between social isolation and psychological distress among disaster survivors is inconclusive. In addition, because these previous studies were cross-sectional in design, the longitudinal association between time-varying social isolation and psychological distress was not clear. The present study examined the longitudinal association between social isolation and psychological distress after the Great East Japan Earthquake. We analyzed longitudinal data for 959 adults who had responded to the self-report questionnaires about Lubben Social Network Scale-6 (LSNS-6) and K6 in both a community-based baseline survey (2011) and a follow-up survey (2014) after the disaster. Participants were categorized into four groups according to changes in the presence of social isolation (
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.037