About the Authors

Makiko Orita

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Medicine, and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan, Department of Nursing, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan

Naomi Hayashida

Affiliation Division of Strategic Collaborative Research, Center for Promotion of Collaborative Research on Radiation and Environment Health Effects, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan

Yumi Nakayama

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Medicine, and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan, Department of Nursing, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan

Tetsuko Shinkawa

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan

Hideko Urata

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan

Yoshiko Fukushima

Affiliation Hirosaki University School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki 0368560, Japan

Yuuko Endo

Affiliation Kawauchi Municipal Government, Fukushima 9791201, Japan

Shunichi Yamashita

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan

Noboru Takamura

takamura@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medicine, and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 8528523, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO NH YN. Performed the experiments: MO NH YN YE NT. Analyzed the data: MO YN NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO NT. Wrote the paper: MO TS HU YF SY NT.