title: Activities and health status of dispatched public health nurses after the great East Japan earthquake.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to elucidate the actual activities conducted by public health nurses during their dispatch and their health status during and after dispatch to the three prefectures most severely affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey request was sent to a total of 2,237 facilities. Of these, 778 facilities returned questionnaires from dispatched public health nurses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The participants of this study were 1,570 dispatched health nurses who participated in activities mostly at evacuation centers, followed by evacuees' homes. After dispatch, an earlier postdisaster phase at the start of dispatch was independently associated with poor subjective well-being, low mood, worsened sleep state, and intense fatigue. Work hours per day were associated with poor subjective well-being and intense fatigue after dispatch.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results suggest that the factor that most strongly affected the postdispatch health of the nurses was the phase that they began their dispatch.
authors: Department of Public Health Nursing, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.
authors: Yoshie
authors: Y
authors: Yokoyama
authors: Kayoko
authors: K
authors: Hirano
authors: Mari
authors: M
authors: Sato
authors: Akiko
authors: A
authors: Abe
authors: Mihoko
authors: M
authors: Uebayashi
authors: Emiko
authors: E
authors: Kishi
authors: Mutsuko
authors: M
authors: Sato
authors: Yuuko
authors: Y
authors: Kuroda
authors: Ikumi
authors: I
authors: Nakaita
authors: Fujio
authors: F
authors: Fukushima
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004190:Disasters; D055866:Earthquakes; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064689:Nurses, Public Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011637:Public Health Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Great East Japan Earthquake; dispatch; public health nurses