Association between disaster experience and prevalence of other diseases after the disaster
| Other disease prevalence | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allergy | Total developmental disorder | Epilepsy | Others | ||||||
| OR (95% CI) | p Value | OR (95% CI) | p Value | OR (95% CI) | p Value | OR (95% CI) | p Value | ||
| Boys (n=31,238) | |||||||||
| Disaster experience | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 1.23 (0.67–2.25) | 0.5 | 1.76 (0.56–5.54) | 0.3 | 1.21 (0.17–8.72) | 0.9 | 1.96 (1.33–2.89) | 0.0007 | |
| House destroyed | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 1.41 (0.58–3.44) | 0.5 | 2.95 (0.72–12.01) | 0.1 | 3.06 (0.42–22.19) | 0.3 | 1.01 (0.45–2.28) | 1.0 | |
| Tsunami | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 1.05 (0.26–4.29) | 0.9 | – | – | 3.46 (1.79–6.70) | 0.0002 | |||
| Moving house | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 1.86 (0.58–5.90) | 0.3 | 3.2 (0.44–23.18) | 0.3 | – | 1.10 (0.35–3.50) | 0.9 | ||
| Living in an evacuation center | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 2.19 (0.80–5.99) | 0.1 | – | – | 1.64 (0.67–4.06) | 0.3 | |||
| Death in the family | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | – | 16.45 (2.16–125.50) | 0.007 | – | – | ||||
| Girls (n=29,032) | |||||||||
| Disaster experience | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 2.09 (1.17–3.74) | 0.01 | – | 1.19 (0.17–8.63) | 0.9 | 1.73 (1.11–2.70) | 0.02 | ||
| House destroyed | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 2.51 (1.10–5.70) | 0.03 | – | – | 1.37 (0.64–2.92) | 0.4 | |||
| Tsunami | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 2.45 (0.90–6.67) | 0.1 | – | – | 4.05 (2.27–7.24) | <0.0001 | |||
| Moving house | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 2.59 (0.82–8.24) | 0.1 | – | – | 1.20 (0.38–3.82) | 0.8 | |||
| Living in an evacuation center | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 0.68 (0.09–4.84) | 0.7 | – | 4.88 (0.67–35.57) | 0.1 | 1.99 (0.87–4.55) | 0.1 | ||
| Death in the family | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | – | – | – | – | |||||
OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; P, P value. Unadjusted unconditional logistic regression.