Mental health and school-based intervention among adolescent exposed to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami

Longitudinal characteristics of resilience among adolescents: A high school student cohort study to assess the psychological impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake

“…The mental health of the students was assessed annually for 3 years after the disaster using the CD‐RISC‐10, QIDS‐J, SAS, and IES‐R, which may have provided opportunities for self‐awareness and facilitated help seeking among the students. In addition, counseling was offered for those who requested it or who showed a high risk of mental health problems, which may have fostered skills for coping with stress and facilitated recovery from mental health problems . This situation may have fostered the resilience of the high school students in this study and concurrently improved their depressive symptoms .…”

“…The data analysis and interpretation of the results were conducted at Miyagi Psychiatric Center; the Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine; and the Department of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. Data analysis and interpretation were performed without access to the raw data to avoid possible divulgence of identifiable information because it was possible that the high school students might attend one of the three facilities, which are in the same prefecture …”

“…The high school is located close to where the tsunami struck. Immediately after the GEJE, the high school students had left the school and evacuated inland to escape the tsunami …”

“…Psychiatrists at the Miyagi Psychiatric Center who specialized in adolescent psychiatry provided consultation meetings once a month with the schoolteachers to follow up with the students and conducted interviews with the students when needed. If a student and parent requested, or a student exhibited a serious psychological condition, he or she was referred to the psychiatrist at the Miyagi Psychiatric Center …”

School-Based Interventions Aimed at the Prevention and Treatment of Adolescents Affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

“…These conditions lasted until prefabricated classrooms were completed in an assigned location 10 km inland from the original school on September 1, 2011 (Okuyama et al 2017). The other high school, referred to as High School B, was located inland, and the damage to the school by the tsunami was minimal.…”