Figure 1.

Trajectories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among local disaster recovery workers following the Great East Japan Earthquake (n = 745)

Note. PCL-S; PTSD Checklist specific version. Total score of PCL-S ranges from 17 to 85. Gray area represents the 95% confidence interval for each trajectory. Names of the trajectories are based on patterns observed during the study period (14–54 months after the GEJE) and careful interpretation is therefore necessary. For example, participants whose trajectory was classified as “resistance” may not have been resilient immediately after the disaster.