Psychological distress after the Great East Japan Earthquake: two multilevel 6-year prospective analyses.

Robin GoodwinKemmyo SugiyamaShaojing SunJun AidaMenachem Ben-Ezra

Published in: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science (2021)

Psychological distress diminished with time, but varied across gender, psychiatric history, housing, levels of activity and availability of social support. Practitioners should consider individual- and city-level factors when devising effective interventions.

Keyphrases

social support
depressive symptoms
sleep quality
mental health
primary care
physical activity
mental illness
general practice