Yumi Sugawara

Biographic Data

ID1732685
NAMEYumi Sugawara
GIVEN NAMESYumi
FAMILY NAMESugawara
SIGNATURESUGAWARA Y
AFFILIATIONSTohoku University
ORCID0000-0002-0197-6772
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Social trust predicts sleep disorder at 6 years after the Great East Japan earthquake

    Open AccessYumi Sugawara, Yasutake Tomata et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2020

    Social trust at 3 to 5 months after the GEJE predicted AIS scores at 6 years after the GEJE among victims. This finding suggests that it may be possible to identify people who have a lower potential for mental resilience from disaster damage over the long term. Further, health interventions for this high-risk group could help promote resilience after a disaster

  • Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the Employment Status and Mental Health Conditions of Affected Coastal Communities

    Open AccessMitsuaki Katayanagi, Moe Seto et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    The Great East Japan Earthquake devasted the old community in coastal areas characterized by primary industry. The number of unemployed people increased from 150,000 to 190,000 after the earthquake. All of the adult residents of Shichigahama (18 years old or older), located in the coastal area of the Miyagi prefecture, whose houses were totally or majorly damaged, were recruited for a survey conducted in October 2011. All of the residents who res…

  • The Impact of Psychological Distress on Incident Functional Disability in Elderly Japanese

    Open AccessYasutake Tomata, Takashi Watanabe et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Background: Although psychological distress is known to be a risk factor for death, there are relatively few data on the impact of psychological distress on incident functional disability in older adults. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of psychological distress on incident functional disability in older adults. Methods: We conducted a cohort study of 12,365 disability-free individuals aged ≥65 years who live in Ohsaki City, Japan…

  • Combined healthy lifestyle behaviours and incident disability in an elderly population

    Shu Zhang, Yasutake Tomata et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2018References: 28

    BACKGROUND: The joint impact of healthy lifestyle behaviours (HLBs) on incident disability among elderly populations is still uncertain. This cohort study was conducted to estimate the population-attributable fraction (PAF) of combined HLBs for disability reduction in elderly Japanese. METHODS: We analysed 10-year follow-up data for 9910 community-dwelling elderly people (≥65 years) in a prospective cohort study. Information on lifestyle behaviou…

  • Association between housing type and γ-GTP increase after the Great East Japan Earthquake

    Open AccessAya Murakami, Yumi Sugawara et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017References: 25

    Our present findings reveal that disaster victims who have moved to privately rented temporary housing/rental housing are at highest risk of negative health effects due to alcohol drinking

  • Longitudinal association between time-varying social isolation and psychological distress after the Great East Japan Earthquake

    Open AccessToshimasa Sone, Naoki Nakaya et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 3References: 21

    The present findings suggest that prevention of social isolation may be an effective public health strategy for preventing psychological distress after a natural disaster

  • Impact of alcohol intake on total mortality and mortality from major causes in Japan

    Manami Inoue, Chisato Nagata et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2012Cited by: 3References: 35

    OBJECTIVES: Using common alcohol consumption categories, to conduct a pooled analysis of six ongoing large-scale cohort studies in Japan in order to produce concrete estimates of the quantitative contribution of alcohol consumption to all-cause and major causes of mortality in the Japanese population. METHODS: Of the 309 082 subjects, there were 35 801 deaths during 3 832 285 person-years of follow-up. Using a random-effect model, we conducted a …