Table 3.

Number of types of mother’s opinions in six categories for the miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth groups

Characteristics	Miscarriage (N = 61)	Abortion (N = 5)	Stillbirth (N = 22)
No. and percentage of respondent with free-form text	15 (25)	3 (60)	13 (59)
Type of mother’s opinion
Pregnancy-related	9	0	7
Service- related	3	1	2
Radiation measurement-related	0	1	3
Child-related	3	0	0
Mother’s health-related	0	1	0
Other	0	0	1

Pregnancy-related items: Outcome of this pregnancy, influence on next pregnancy

Service-related items: Poor amount of information, insufficiency of medical service, shortage of daily necessities, difficulty in living, support for cost of goods, support for cost of living

Radiation measurement-related items: Supply of dosimeter, health examination, internal and/or external exposure, urine analysis, analysis of breast milk, ultrasonography survey of thyroid cancer

Child-related items: Water, breast or powdered milk, food, going or playing outside, influence on children

Mother’s health-related items: Psychiatric disorders of the mother in question

Other: Information transmission, decontamination from the radioactive material, complete medical service, support of refuge, complete child care service, mental care and consulting service, complaints about this survey, approval of this survey