Lingering health-related anxiety about radiation among Fukushima residents as correlated with media information following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Chihiro Nakayama; Osamu Sato; Minoru Sugita; Takeo Nakayama; Yujiro Kuroda; Masatsugu Orui; Hajime Iwasa; Seiji Yasumura; Rima E. Rudd

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217285

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Lingering health-related anxiety about radiation among Fukushima residents as correlated with media information following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Chihiro Nakayama ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nakac@fmu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-9628

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Osamu Sato,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Children's Department of Welfare Faculty, Fukushima College, Fukushima, Japan
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Minoru Sugita,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Takeo Nakayama,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Informatics, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan
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Yujiro Kuroda,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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Masatsugu Orui,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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Hajime Iwasa,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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Seiji Yasumura,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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Rima E. Rudd

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Lingering health-related anxiety about radiation among Fukushima residents as correlated with media information following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Chihiro Nakayama,
Osamu Sato,
Minoru Sugita,
Takeo Nakayama,
Yujiro Kuroda,
Masatsugu Orui,
Hajime Iwasa,
Seiji Yasumura,
Rima E. Rudd

Published: May 31, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217285

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