阪神・淡路大震災の被災地における母子の心身の健康及び, 母子を取り巻く環境に関する研究

Abstract

The Hanshin-Awaji earthquake which happened on January 17, 1995 caused tremendous size of disastrously effect on people’s daily life. The purposes of this study are:1) to identify the course of life effect on the mother and child of those who had been child bearing cycle at the time of earth quake and 2) to investigate the possible method of providing necessary maternal-child care during future disaster area by ordinance. Since this area was suburb of the core disaster area, the damage on the house by fire or collapse. The subjects of this study were 68 mother who came to infant and three year’s physical examination that provided by city public health center. The semi-structured interview was conducted. The data were analyzed quantitively by basic statistics and case study method for qualitative data. Following results were found. 1) There were plausible change in mother and child’s environment after the earth quake by the result of direct and indirect effects. 2) Due to environmental change, some patterns, such as sleeplessness,sensitiveness were observed in physical and psychological status of the mother and child. The change of status were observed at the beginning and disappeared by the time passage. In few cases, the change of status had persisted even after half year had passed. From the result, the recommendation for establishing maternal-child support system during disaster is proposed. Those are 1) to disseminate the necessary knowledge from immediately after the disastrous event, 2) to establish some temporary advise corner by professional, 3) to establish professional network for keeping necessary database which could be shared or used in case of emergency situation, and 4) to do a follow up study to find lasting effect on child bearing family.