The Investigation on the Support for the Families Evacuated to their Relative's and the Accepted Families after the great disaster in Japan.

Abstract

This study investigated the changes in situation and emotion of host families(wives) who received evacuee families after Great East Japan Earthquake(GEJE). Twelve subjects who accommodated evacuee families were interviewed. Eleven cases of accommodation were due to the accident of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and started just after GEJE. According to quality analysis with protocol data, host families tended to push themselves too hard through a month after GEJE, and start burning out from around three months after GEJE. Their burnout caused by their underlying stress as they couldn't tell it even to their family and friends. Troubles with evacuee families were observed in some cases from five months after GEJE. The main factors that host families handled their accommodation well were indicated as follows that evacuee family had, 1) Initiative 2) a low level of reliance on support of information and money. And in addition, host families just wanted to receive the words, “ thank you” from evacuees, and “good job!” from their relatives.