Relationships between Traumatic Symptoms and Environmental Damage Conditions among Children 8 Months after the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Masahide Usami; Yoshitaka Iwadare; Masaki Kodaira; Kyota Watanabe; Momoko Aoki; Chiaki Katsumi; Kumi Matsuda; Kazunori Makino; Sonoko Iijima; Maiko Harada; Hiromi Tanaka; Yoshinori Sasaki; Tetsuya Tanaka; Hirokage Ushijima; Kazuhiko Saito

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050721

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Relationships between Traumatic Symptoms and Environmental Damage Conditions among Children 8 Months after the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Masahide Usami ,

* E-mail: usami.masahide@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Yoshitaka Iwadare,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Masaki Kodaira,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Kyota Watanabe,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Momoko Aoki,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Chiaki Katsumi,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan
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Kumi Matsuda,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Kazunori Makino,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Sonoko Iijima,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Maiko Harada,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Hiromi Tanaka,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Yoshinori Sasaki,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Tetsuya Tanaka,

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Hirokage Ushijima,

Affiliation Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Kumamoto, Japan
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Kazuhiko Saito

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kohnodai Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
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Relationships between Traumatic Symptoms and Environmental Damage Conditions among Children 8 Months after the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Masahide Usami,
Yoshitaka Iwadare,
Masaki Kodaira,
Kyota Watanabe,
Momoko Aoki,
Chiaki Katsumi,
Kumi Matsuda,
Kazunori Makino,
Sonoko Iijima,
Maiko Harada

Published: November 29, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050721

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