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Table 1 Characteristics of participants according to social trust on the first health survey after the GEJE

From: Social trust predicts sleep disorder at 6 years after the Great East Japan earthquake: data from a prospective cohort study

 

Interpersonal trusta

 

High

Low

 

(n = 840)

(n = 453)

p

Sex (%)

 Men

373

(44.4%)

220

(48.6%)

0.20

 Women

467

(55.6%)

233

(51.4%)

 

Age, years (SD)

64.46

(14.35)

58.82

(13.48)

< 0.01

Resident status (%)

 Same as before the GEJE

409

(48.7%)

185

(40.8%)

< 0.05

 Relocation after the GEJEb

401

(47.7%)

261

(57.6%)

 

Economic status

 very hard or hard

230

(27.4%)

211

(46.6%)

< 0.05

 a little hard or normal

607

(72.3%)

241

(53.2%)

 

History of stroke (%)

15

(1.8%)

10

(2.2%)

0.59

History of hypertension (%)

329

(39.2%)

167

(36.9%)

0.42

History of myocardial infaction (%)

43

(5.1%)

25

(5.5%)

0.76

History of diabetes mellitus (%)

60

(7.1%)

35

(7.7%)

0.70

Current Smoker (%)

149

(17.7%)

110

(24.3%)

< 0.05

Current Drinker (%)

276

(32.9%)

161

(35.5%)

0.34

Time spent walking (%)

  ≤ 0.5 h/day

257

(30.6%)

133

(29.4%)

0.14

 0.5–1.0 h/day

301

(35.8%)

144

(31.8%)

 

  ≥ 1 h/day

280

(33.3%)

175

(38.6%)

 

AIS score (SD)

4.57

(3.60)

6.44

(3.94)

< 0.01

K6 score (SD)

4.32

(4.08)

6.77

(4.99)

< 0.01

LSNS-6 score (SD)

16.02

(5.66)

13.50

(5.73)

< 0.01

  1. SD Standard deviation
  2. a Social trust measured by the responding, “People in my community can be trusted” (High; “Strongly agree” and“Somewhat agree”. Low; “Neither agree nor disagree”, “Somewhat disagree”, and “Strongly disagree”)
  3. b Relocation after the GEJE:shelter, temporary house, rental house, family house or friends house, and others