Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Department of Radioisotope Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
PLoS One. 2019 Mar 13;14(3):e0212917. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212917. eCollection 2019.
In response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan issued the new "Nuclear Emergency Response Guideline." However, there is a perception that scientific information about the health impact of radiation exposure has not been adequately shared among the local government staffs, including schoolteachers. We contacted schoolteachers at all 120 schools within the Urgent Protective Action Planning Zone of the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant, Kagoshima prefecture, in 2017. We invited them to take part in a written survey to clarify their concerns and risk perceptions regarding the effects of radiation exposure on health. Five hundred and fifty schoolteachers' replies were included in the analysis. The results revealed that 355 schoolteachers had concerns about the health effects of radiation exposure due to working within the Urgent Protective Action Planning Zone. A logistic regression analysis revealed that sex (OR = 2.26, 95% CI: 1.49-3.45, p < 0.001), age (OR = 3.39, 95% CI: 2.10-5.47, p < 0.001), reluctance to undergo a radiological examination at a hospital (OR = 1.91, 95% CI: 1.23-2.88, p = 0.004), place of work (OR = 2.18, 95% CI: 1.46-3.27, p < 0.001), and anxiety about having to address questions about radiation from students (OR = 4.66, 95% CI: 2.83-7.67, p < 0.001) were independently associated with schoolteachers' concerns about the health effects of radiation exposure due to working in the area around the nuclear power plant. Therefore, it is important to respond to these concerns in order to establish a meaningful education program for school children on radiation and its health effects.
针对福岛第一核电站灾难，日本核管理局发布了新的《核应急响应指南》。然而，人们认为，包括学校教师在内的地方政府工作人员并没有充分了解有关辐射暴露对健康影响的科学信息。我们于 2017 年联系了鹿儿岛县仙台核电站紧急防护计划区的 120 所学校的所有教师。我们邀请他们参加书面调查，以明确他们对辐射暴露对健康影响的担忧和风险认知。在分析中包括了 550 名教师的答复。结果表明，由于在紧急防护计划区工作，355 名教师对辐射暴露对健康的影响表示担忧。逻辑回归分析表明，性别（OR=2.26，95%CI：1.49-3.45，p<0.001）、年龄（OR=3.39，95%CI：2.10-5.47，p<0.001）、不愿意在医院接受放射性检查（OR=1.91，95%CI：1.23-2.88，p=0.004）、工作地点（OR=2.18，95%CI：1.46-3.27，p<0.001）以及对必须回答学生关于辐射的问题感到焦虑（OR=4.66，95%CI：2.83-7.67，p<0.001）与教师对在核电站周围地区工作导致的辐射健康影响的担忧独立相关。因此，回应这些担忧对于为学校儿童制定关于辐射及其健康影响的有意义的教育计划非常重要。
