Pre-disaster social support is protective for onset of post-disaster depression: prospective study from the Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami - Sasaki Y, Aida J, Tsuji T, Koyama S, Tsuboya T, Saito T, Kondo K, Kawachi I.

We examined whether pre-disaster social support functions as a disaster preparedness resource to mitigate post-disaster depressive symptoms among older survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. The participants were 3,567 individuals a...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news