2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 1-9
This study is based on a fact-finding survey of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in nurses approximately 8–9 months after the Kumamoto Earthquake, with nurses working in hospitals in the disaster-stricken areas of the Kumamoto Earthquake of 2016 as subjects. There were 322 analysis subjects and 46 (14.3%) of those with a high PTSD risk. There was an association between those with a high PTSD risk to those being in a higher age group or being a nursing middle manager in a ward. In addition, there was also an association between those with a high PTSD risk to those who were on duty during the main shock and those having a partially damaged home due to the quake. It was shown that there is a need to support nurses who have experienced these events. Furthermore, those who had undergone disaster nursing training tended to suffer less from PTSD. It is thought that the disaster nursing training course contributed to promoting visualization to cope with disasters and is an effective countermeasure for PTSD in the event of a disaster.
