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Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

This study aimed to clarify the frequency of visits (FOV) to Tomioka town, Japan, and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. A questionnaire survey was conducted on residents (age ≥ 18 years) who had residence cards in August 2021....

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Autores principales: Matsunaga, Hitomi, Xiao, Xu, Hande, Varsha, Orita, Makiko, Kashiwazaki, Yuya, Taira, Yasuyuki, Takamura, Noboru
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37023706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrr/rrad018
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author Matsunaga, Hitomi
Xiao, Xu
Hande, Varsha
Orita, Makiko
Kashiwazaki, Yuya
Taira, Yasuyuki
Takamura, Noboru
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Xiao, Xu
Hande, Varsha
Orita, Makiko
Kashiwazaki, Yuya
Taira, Yasuyuki
Takamura, Noboru
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description This study aimed to clarify the frequency of visits (FOV) to Tomioka town, Japan, and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. A questionnaire survey was conducted on residents (age ≥ 18 years) who had residence cards in August 2021. Of the 2260 respondents, the FOV to Tomioka was as follows: 926 (41.0%) more than twice a year (Group 1 [G1]), 841 (37.2%) once a year (G2) and 493 (21.8%) no visits (G3). About 70% of the respondents who had decided not to return to Tomioka visited once a year or more. No significant differences in the FOV or radiation risk perception were found between groups. Multinomial logistic regression analysis using G3 as a reference revealed independent associations between living inside Fukushima in G1 (odds ratio [OR] = 5.4, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.1–7.3; P < 0.01) and G2 (OR = 2.3, 95% CI: 1.8–3.0, P < 0.01), undecided about returning in G1 (OR = 2.5, 95% CI: 1.9–3.3, P < 0.01), females in G1 (OR = 2.0, 95% CI: 1.6–2.6, P < 0.01) and motivation to learn more about tritiated water in G2 (OR = 1.8, 95% CI: 1.3–2.4, P < 0.01). Overall, 80% of the residents had visited Tomioka within a decade after the accident. These findings suggest the need to continue the effective dissemination of information about the effects of a nuclear accident and the subsequent decommissioning process to evacuees after evacuation orders have been lifted.
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spelling pubmed-102149902023-05-27 Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident Matsunaga, Hitomi Xiao, Xu Hande, Varsha Orita, Makiko Kashiwazaki, Yuya Taira, Yasuyuki Takamura, Noboru J Radiat Res Regular paper This study aimed to clarify the frequency of visits (FOV) to Tomioka town, Japan, and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. A questionnaire survey was conducted on residents (age ≥ 18 years) who had residence cards in August 2021. Of the 2260 respondents, the FOV to Tomioka was as follows: 926 (41.0%) more than twice a year (Group 1 [G1]), 841 (37.2%) once a year (G2) and 493 (21.8%) no visits (G3). About 70% of the respondents who had decided not to return to Tomioka visited once a year or more. No significant differences in the FOV or radiation risk perception were found between groups. Multinomial logistic regression analysis using G3 as a reference revealed independent associations between living inside Fukushima in G1 (odds ratio [OR] = 5.4, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.1–7.3; P < 0.01) and G2 (OR = 2.3, 95% CI: 1.8–3.0, P < 0.01), undecided about returning in G1 (OR = 2.5, 95% CI: 1.9–3.3, P < 0.01), females in G1 (OR = 2.0, 95% CI: 1.6–2.6, P < 0.01) and motivation to learn more about tritiated water in G2 (OR = 1.8, 95% CI: 1.3–2.4, P < 0.01). Overall, 80% of the residents had visited Tomioka within a decade after the accident. These findings suggest the need to continue the effective dissemination of information about the effects of a nuclear accident and the subsequent decommissioning process to evacuees after evacuation orders have been lifted. Oxford University Press 2023-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10214990/ /pubmed/37023706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrr/rrad018 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Japanese Radiation Research Society and Japanese Society for Radiation Oncology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Matsunaga, Hitomi
Xiao, Xu
Hande, Varsha
Orita, Makiko
Kashiwazaki, Yuya
Taira, Yasuyuki
Takamura, Noboru
Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
title Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
title_full Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
title_fullStr Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
title_full_unstemmed Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
title_short Frequency of visits to Tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
title_sort frequency of visits to tomioka town and related factors among evacuees more than a decade after the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant accident
topic Regular paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37023706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrr/rrad018
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