タグ「mental health」
Title: NEUROMENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN IRRADIATED IN UTERO AS A RESULT OF THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER
Author: Nyagu A I, Loganovskaja T K, Loganovsky K N
Reference: Укр. мед. часопис. (Ukrainian Medical Journal) , №2 (16) III – IV 2000 г.
Keywords: brain damage in utero, Chernobyl accident, neuromental health, etiopathogenesis, prenatal irradiation
Abstract: An integrated estimation of neuromental health of children acutely exposed to prenatal irradiation was performed. One hundred children, who were born between 26 April 1986 and 26 February 1987 from pregnant at the moment of the Chernobyl disaster women evacuated from the city of Pripyat after the accident were examined (main group). Doses of fetus irradiation were 10,7–92,5 mSv and doses of fetus thyroid irradiation were 0,2–2 Gy. Comparison group included 50 children from Kiev of the same age which mother’s pregnancies took place in Kiev (doses of fetus irradiation were 0–2,7 mSv and doses of fetus thyroid irradiation were 0–0,04 Gy).
URL:http://www.umj.com.ua/article/2187/nejropsixicheskoe-zdorove-vnutriutrobno-obluchennyx-detej-vsledstvie-chernobylskoj-katastrofy#en
Title: Neuropsychiatric aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster: current state of evidences
Author: Loganovsky K N
Reference: Укр. мед. часопис. (Ukrainian Medical Journal) , 6 (68) – XI/XII 2008
Keywords: Chernobyl accident, neuropsychiatric effects, ionizing radiation, brain radiosensitivity, cerebral radiation markers, State Mental Health Care System
Abstract: The neuropsychiatric aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster remain the most important medical and social problem, however their causes are at issue. There is a strong necessity to develop and implement the State Mental Health Care System for the survivors of the Chernobyl accident as well as possible in the future radiation accidents and terrorist attacks with radiologic dispersive devise (RDD or «dirty bomb»). The brain is a radiosensitive organ where its vulnerability to exposure to ionizing radiation is different: radiation brain injury is mainly localized in neocortex, cortical-limbic system and the dominant hemisphere. The neurophysiological and neuroimaging radiation markers, psychophysiological markers of prenatal irradiation and postradiation cognitive deficit are revealed.
URL:http://www.umj.com.ua/article/2205/nejropsixiatrichni-naslidki-chornobilskoi-katastrofi-suchasnij-stan-dokaziv#ru
Title: Intellectual development, mental and behavioural disorders in the children whose mothers were exposed to pathogenic radioecological and psychosocial factors as a result of Chernobyl accident at the different stages of pregnancy
Author: Igumnov S.A., Drozdovitch V.V.
Reference: Journal: Radiation and Risk (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 1999 Issue: 11
Keywords: intellectual development, mental disorders, behavioral disorders, children, mothers, the impact of pathogenic factors, the impact of radio-ecological factors, the impact of psychosocial factors, pregnancy
Abstract: The study examined psychological development in 187 children at the age of 6-7 and 10-11, who had suffered prenatal radiation exposure at the time of the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/intellektualnoe-razvitie-osobennosti-psihicheskih-i-povedencheskih-rasstroystv-u-detey-materi-kotoryh-podverglis-vozdeystviyu
Title: A person’s psychological status as a subject of investigation in the analysis of people’s mentality condition in an ecological ill-being region
Author: Sarayeva, Nadejda Mihailovna
Reference: Journal: Proceedings of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.I. Herzen, Year: 2008 Issue: 62
Keywords: psychological status of a person, a region of ecological trouble
Abstract: The article substantiates application of the concept “a person’s psychological status” and characterises the structure of the psychological status as a system property of the “person – environment” system for the analysis of the condition of people’s mentality in an ecological illbeing region.
URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/psihologicheskiy-status-cheloveka-kak-predmet-issledovaniya-pri-analize-sostoyaniya-psihiki-lyudey-v-regione-ekologicheskogo
Title: Neuropsychological dysfunction syndrome of mental functions in liquidators of the Chernobyl accident aftermath
Author: Gorina, Irina Stanislavovna
Reference: Moscow 2000
Keywords: psychology, neuropsychological studies, abnormalities of mental functions, liquidators
Abstract: The aim of our work was to study the neuropsychological disturbances of higher mental functions in liquidators of the Chernobyl accident and the description of structure and features of neuropsychological syndromes.
URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/neiropsikhologicheskie-sindromy-narusheniya-psikhicheskikh-funktsii-u-uchastnikov-likvidatsi
Title: Growing up in the shadow of Chornobyl: adolescents’ risk perceptions and mental health
Author: Bromet EJ, Guey LT, Taormina DP, Carlson GA, Havenaar JM, Kotov R, Gluzman SF
Reference: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology [2011, 46(5):393-402]
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0203-5
Keywords:mental health
Abstract: Despite long-term research on risk perceptions of adults after ecological disasters, little is known about the legacy for the generation exposed to toxic elements as infants. This study examined Chornobyl-related risk perceptions and their relationship to mental health in adolescents raised in Kyiv in the aftermath of the accident.
URL:http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/20221882
Title: A 25 year retrospective review of the psychological consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
Author: Bromet EJ, Havenaar JM, Guey LT
Reference: Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)) [2011, 23(4):297-305]
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2011.01.501
Keywords: psychological consequences, mental health
Abstract: The Chernobyl Forum Report from the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster concluded that mental health effects were the most significant public health consequence of the accident. This paper provides an updated review of research on the psychological impact of the accident during the 25 year period since the catastrophe began. First responders and clean-up workers had the greatest exposure to radiation. Recent studies show that their rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder remain elevated two decades later. Very young children and those in utero who lived near the plant when it exploded or in severely contaminated areas have been the subject of considerable research, but the findings are inconsistent. Recent studies of prenatally exposed children conducted in Kiev, Norway and Finland point to specific neuropsychological and psychological impairments associated with radiation exposure, whereas other studies found no significant cognitive or mental health effects in exposed children grown up. General population studies report increased rates of poor self-rated health as well as clinical and subclinical depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Mothers of young children exposed to the disaster remain a high-risk group for these conditions, primarily due to lingering worries about the adverse health effects on their families. Thus, long-term mental health consequences continue to be a concern. The unmet need for mental health care in affected regions remains an important public health challenge 25 years later. Future research is needed that combines physical and mental health outcome measures to complete the clinical picture.
URL:http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/21330117
Author: Douglas V. Almond; Lena Edlund; Marten Palme
Reference: New York, NY 10027: Department of Economics, Columbia University, 2007.
Keywords: Sweden, Japanese atomic bomb survivors, reduced IQ, Chernobyl, cognitive ability
Abstract: Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits the natural experiment generated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986, which caused a spike in radiation levels in Sweden. In a comprehensive data set of 562,637 Swedes born 1983-1988, we find the cohort in utero during the Chernobyl accident had worse school outcomes than adjacent birth cohorts, and this deterioration was largest for those exposed approximately 8-25 weeks post conception. Moreover, we find larger damage among students born in regions that received more fallout: students from the eight most affected municipalities were 3.6 percentage points less likely to qualify to high school as a result of the fallout. Our findings suggest that fetal exposure to ionizing radiation damages cognitive ability at radiation levels previously considered safe. (full text available on web)
URL: http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/item/ac:114443
Author: Adams RE, Guey LT, Gluzman SF, Bromet EJ.
Reference: Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2011
Keywords: long-term mental health consequences, psychological well-being, exposed women, PTSD, MDE
Abstract: The Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion in April 1986 was one of the worst ecological disasters of the 20th century. As with most disasters, its long-term mental health consequences have not been examined.
Aims: This study describes the psychological well-being and risk perceptions of exposed women 19–20 years later and the risk factors associated with mental health.
Methods: We assessed Chornobyl-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive episode (MDE) and overall distress among three groups of women in Kyiv, Ukraine (N = 797): mothers of small children evacuated to Kyiv in 1986 from the contaminated area near the plant (evacuees); mothers of their children’s classmates (neighbourhood controls); and population-based controls from Kyiv. Risk perceptions and epidemiologic correlates were also obtained.
Results: Evacuees reported poorer well-being and more negative risk perceptions than controls. Group differences in psychological well-being remained after adjustment for epidemiologic risk factors but became non-significant when Chornobyl risk perceptions were added to the models.
Conclusions: The relatively poorer psychological well-being among evacuees is largely explained by their continued concerns about the physical health risks stemming from the accident. We suggest that this is due to the long-term, non-resolvable nature of health fears associated with exposure.
URL: http://isp.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/08/02/0020764011415204.abstract
Title: The psychological well-being of Norwegian adolescents exposed in utero to radiation from the Chernobyl accident
Author: Kristin S Heiervang, Sarnoff Mednick, Kjetil Sundet and Bjørn R Rund
Reference: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2011, 5:12
doi:10.1186/1753-2000-5-12
Keywords: Psychiatry, Mental Health, adolescents, Norway
Abstract: On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered an accident. Several areas of central Norway were heavily affected by far field radioactive fallout. The present study focuses on the psychological well-being of adolescents who were exposed to this radiation as fetuses.
URL:http://www.capmh.com/content/5/1/12
