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Relationship between salivary cortisol and depression in adolescent survivors of a major natural disaster
竹田, 一則
Yonekura, Takashi
Takeda, Kazunori
Shetty, Vivek
Yamaguchi, Masaki
© The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of salivary cortisol levels for screening mental states such as depression in adolescents following a natural disaster. We examined the relationship of salivary cortisol levels in adolescent survivors of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake with the depression subscale of the 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Subjects were 63 adolescent survivors (age = 14.29 years ± 0.51) who were administered the GHQ and provided saliva samples thrice daily (morning, afternoon and evening) over the course of 3 days. Based on the GHQ-depression subscores, subjects were divided into low and high depression groups. About 22 % of the subjects were classified into the high symptom group. When data collected over 3 days were used, a significant difference was observed between the two groups in the salivary cortisol levels at the evening time point as well the ratio of the morning/evening levels (p < 0.05). Analyzed by means of receiver-operating characteristic curves, the morning/evening ratios showed a good power in discriminating between subjects with and without depressive symptoms. Our study suggests that repeated measurement of salivary cortisol levels over 3 days has utility in screening for depressive states in adolescents following a natural disaster.
Springer
2014-07
jpn
journal article
http://hdl.handle.net/2241/00121963
https://tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/31293
24744089
10.1007/s12576-014-0315-x
1880-6546
AA12129145
The journal of physiological sciences
64
4
261
267
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