Table 3.
Psychological, musculoskeletal and digestive symptoms in percentages of male and female affected residents and members of the comparison group attending their FP at least once per year, one year pre-disaster (year 0) and five years post-disaster (years 1 through 5).
| Psychological symptoms | Male | Female | |||
| affected | comparison | affected | comparison | ||
| Pre-disaster | year 0 | 12,9 | 10,9 | 19,1 | 14,9 |
| Post-disaster | year 1 | 40,8*** | 11,5 | 55,1*** | 18,4 |
| year 2 | 24,6*** | 12,8 | 33,5*** | 16,9 | |
| year 3 | 24,0*** | 13,7 | 33,4** | 20,4 | |
| year 4 | 19,0* | 12,7 | 28,8 | 20,8 | |
| year 5 | 16,9 | 13,2 | 24,3 | 17,3 | |
| Musculoskeletal symptoms | Male | Female | |||
| affected | comparison | affected | comparison | ||
| Pre-disaster | year 0 | 23,0 | 19,8 | 29,1 | 23,9 |
| Post-disaster | year 1 | 25,4 | 19,8 | 31,1 | 24,2 |
| year 2 | 22,8 | 18,8 | 30,7 | 24,8 | |
| year 3 | 22,2 | 19,6 | 31,3 | 24,4 | |
| year 4 | 20,1 | 19,4 | 27,1 | 24,4 | |
| year 5 | 20,7 | 17,7 | 28,5 | 23,6 | |
| Digestive symptoms | Male | Female | |||
| affected | comparison | affected | comparison | ||
| Pre-disaster | year 0 | 12,2 | 10,1 | 14,9 | 14,1 |
| Post-disaster | year 1 | 12,9 | 9,4 | 18,1 | 14,3 |
| year 2 | 11,9 | 9,6 | 16,6 | 13,3 | |
| year 3 | 12,9 | 10,4 | 16,8 | 14,6 | |
| year 4 | 13,2 | 11,7 | 18,7 | 15,4 | |
| year 5 | 11,5 | 11,3 | 16,6 | 14,7 | |
* P < .05, year compared with year 0
** P < .01, year compared with year 0
*** P < .001, year compared with year 0