Center for Integrated Science and Humanities, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima-city, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan; Research Department, Fukushima Prefectural Centre for Environmental Creation, Japan.
Center for Integrated Science and Humanities, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima-city, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan.
Public Health. 2021 May;194:156-162. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.03.004. Epub 2021 May 1.
This study analyzes the change in the sense of food safety over time, from 2 years before to 8 years after the Fukushima accident in 2011, and its association with social connectedness using cohort data, taking into account regional differences in Fukushima Prefecture.
Repeated cross-sectional data from Fukushima Prefectural Government from 2009 to 2018 were used.
We randomly selected 1300 people every fiscal year (FY). The survey gathered data on age, gender, occupation, residential region, and the explanatory variables 'sense of social connectedness' and 'recovery-related information source' (information source). The prefecture was divided into three regions for the survey-Hamadori region, where the nuclear power plant is located, Nakadori region, where the air dose rate after the earthquake was high, and in Aizu, far from the nuclear power station but has suffered from harmful rumors.
Focusing on FY 2014, when the sense of safety first showed recovery, we performed a binominal logistic regression analysis with 'sense of safety' as the outcome and 'sense of social connectedness' and 'information source' as the explanatory variables. The sense of safety significantly decreased in all regions in 2011 relative to earlier years. The sense of food safety decreased markedly in Hamadori and Nakadori but started to improve 3 years after the earthquake and reached the pre-earthquake level in 2018. The effect sizes were larger in the Hamadori region and in Nakadori than in Aizu. In FY 2014, multivariate analysis found that a sense of food safety was significantly positively associated with a sense of social connectedness, whereas the use of information from newspapers and TV and word of mouth was negatively associated.
Although the recovery of a sense of food safety may take some time, a focus on social connectedness during recovery and scrutiny of information sources may facilitate recovery. Health communication has an important role when the provider sends information intelligibly and the recipient can distinguish good news from bad and link it to self-determination. It is necessary to improve literacy.
本研究通过利用队列数据，考虑到福岛县的地区差异，分析了自 2011 年福岛事故发生前 2 年至 8 年后，人们对食品安全的感知变化及其与社会联系的关系。
本研究使用了福岛县政府 2009 年至 2018 年的重复横断面数据。
我们每年（财政年度）随机选择 1300 人。该调查收集了年龄、性别、职业、居住地区以及解释变量“社会联系感”和“恢复相关信息源”（信息源）的数据。该地区分为三个区域进行调查：位于核电站所在地的滨通地区、地震后空气剂量率较高的中通地区，以及远离核电站但遭受恶意谣言影响的会津地区。
我们关注 2014 财政年度，当时安全感首次出现恢复，我们以“安全感”为结果，以“社会联系感”和“信息源”为解释变量，进行二项逻辑回归分析。与前几年相比，2011 年所有地区的安全感都显著下降。滨通地区和中通地区的食品安全感明显下降，但在地震 3 年后开始改善，并在 2018 年达到地震前的水平。滨通地区和中通地区的效应大小大于会津地区。在 2014 财政年度，多变量分析发现，食品安全感与社会联系感显著正相关，而使用报纸和电视以及口口相传的信息则与食品安全感呈负相关。
尽管食品安全感的恢复可能需要一些时间，但在恢复期间关注社会联系感并仔细审查信息源可能有助于恢复。当提供者能够清晰地发送信息，而接收者能够区分好坏消息并将其与自我决定联系起来时，健康传播就会发挥重要作用。有必要提高文化素养。
