Risk and resilience in trajectories of post-traumatic stress symptoms among first responders after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: 7-year prospective cohort study.

Taku Saito Florentine H S van der DoesMasanori NagamineNic J van der WeeJun ShigemuraTaisuke YamamotoYoshitomo TakahashiMinori KogaHiroyuki TodaAihide YoshinoEric H G J M VermettenErik J Giltay

Published in: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science (2022)

The majority of first responders to GEJE were resilient and developed few or no PTSD symptoms. A substantial minority experienced late-onset and chronic symptom severity trajectories. The identified risk factors can inform policies for prevention, early detection and intervention in individuals at risk of developing symptomatic trajectories.

Keyphrases

late onset
depressive symptoms
risk factors
social support
early onset
sleep quality
randomized controlled trial
public health
climate change
heat stress
drug induced