@article{oai:nsg.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004721,
 author = {Kinoshita, Naohiko and Koiso, Kyoko and Honma, Michiko and Awashima, Masahiro and Inagaki, Chifumi and Ishihara, Miyuki and Takiguchi, Toru},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {Niigata journal of health and welfare, 1346-8782},
 month = {},
 note = {application/pdf, 論文(Article), The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), on March 11, 2011, forced many residents of Fukushima to evacuate to other prefectures. It is known as a triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents. People were exposed to repeated terrifying images of the disaster, such as footage of the tsunami and explosions at the nuclear plants, on television and every other type of media. The purpose of this study was to confirm evacuees’utilization rates of media coverage and verify the influences of that coverage on the change of their subjective stress for three years (stress3Y) from just after GEJE. Analyses were performed using anonymous self-administered questionnaires with 859 evacuees. First, comparisons among the types of media coverage consumed and age groups by gender were conducted to verify any unevenness or linear trends. Multiple regression analysis was then performed with the objective variable of stress3Y, and 24 explanatory variables : gender, age group, family structures, types of news source, and visual analogue scale (VAS) for measuring influences of media coverage. Few differences were found between the genders. The news source with the highest utilization was television, and over 70% of evacuees consumed multiple news sources. Regarding age differences, an upward age trend in newspaper utilization rate was observed, and downward trends were observed regarding mobile phone and internet usage. Stress3Ys were significantly influenced both positively (merits) and negatively (demerits) by television coverage. Information obtained via television particularly contributed to the reduction of stress, but oft-repeated scenes of disaster, such as coverage of the tsunami on television, seemed to cause evacuees and even non-evacuees to experience trauma. These results indicate that, in order to prevent disaster trauma, excessive repeated coverage of actual disaster scenes on television should be reconsidered in order to avoid exacerbating disaster-related stress and post-traumatic stress. Media organizations should restrict the airing of vivid disaster scenes in the same way that they do for graphic murder and war scenes.},
 pages = {100--110},
 title = {Media coverage and stress in evacuees from Fukushima of the Great East Japan Earthquake},
 volume = {18},
 year = {2018}
}