Table 1.
Mental health risk of nurses during disasters evaluated by using GHQ-12 score
| Authors (year of pub) | Subjects | Number | GHQ-12 (av.) | GHQ-12 (SD) | Low-risk group (%) | High-risk group (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suzuki et al. [14] (2004) | Nurses in 8 tertiary-care hospitals | 4279 | 5.42 | 3.29 | 31.2 | 68.8 |
| Nickell et al. [15] (2004) | Nurses in a tertiary-care hospital of SARS | 87 | a | a | 54.9 | 45.1 |
| Mattei et al. [3] (2017) | Nurses in an earthquake-stricken area | 173 | b | b | 47.5c | 52.5c |
| Nukui et al. [13] (2017) | Nurses in Fukushima | 730 | 3.96 | 3.27 | 54.4 | 45.6 |
The cut-off values of GHQ-12 for the low- and high- risk groups were <3 and >4, respectively. aNo description in the article. bDifferent scoring method. cPercentage of included nurses (n = 173), doctors (n = 77) and health-care assistants (n = 34). GHQ-12 scores did not differ significantly between nurses and doctors, or between nurses and health-care assistants.