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| Title |
The effect of a behavioral activation program on improving mental and physical health complaints associated with radiation stress among mothers in Fukushima: a randomized controlled trial
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, November 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-016-3819-x |
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| Authors |
Kotaro Imamura, Yuki Sekiya, Yumi Asai, Maki Umeda, Naoko Horikoshi, Seiji Yasumura, Hirooki Yabe, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Norito Kawakami |
| Abstract |
Mothers living with small children in Fukushima prefecture may experience radiation anxiety and related symptoms after the Fukushima Dai'ich Nuclear Power Plant Accident. A behavioral activation (BA) program was developed to improve their psychosomatic symptoms. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the effectiveness of a BA program for improving psychological distress and physical symptoms among mothers with preschool children in Fukushima-prefecture 3 years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Participants were recruited from mothers living with a preschool child(ren) in Fukushima city and surrounding areas though a newspaper advertisement, posters, and flyers. Participants allocated to the intervention group received a newly developed group-based BA program, which consisted of two 90- min lessons with a 1-week interval. Psychological distress and physical symptoms as a primary outcome, and radiation anxiety and positive well-being (liveliness and life satisfaction) as a secondary outcome, were measured at baseline, 1- and 3-month follow-ups. Participants were randomly allocated to either an intervention or a control group (18 and 19, respectively). The BA program showed a marginally significant intervention effect on psychological distress (p = 0.051) and physical symptoms (p = 0.07) at 1-month follow-up, while the effect became smaller at 3-month follow-up. The effect sizes at 1-month were medium to large (-0.72 and -0.56, respectively). There was a significant intervention effect on increasing liveliness at 3-month follow-up (p = 0.02); and there were marginally significant effects on life satisfaction at 1- and 3-month follow-ups (both p = 0.09). This BA program may be effective for improving psychological distress, physical symptoms, and well-being, at least for a short duration, among mothers with preschool children after the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima, while a further large-scale study is needed. The UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR; ID = UMIN000014081 ). Registered 27 May 2014. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| China | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 114 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 8% |
| Researcher | 8 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 21 | 18% |
| Unknown | 37 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 35 | 31% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 9% |
| Unknown | 38 | 33% |
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