Abstract:During the East Japan Great Earthquake Disaster, we psychiatrists who belong to Japanese Red Cross Hospitals offered support by liaison psychiatry to the Japanese Red Cross Ishinomaki Hospital, the base hospital in the stricken area with no psychiatrists. We offered support for 180 days and treated 162 new patients from April 2011 to November 2011. Diseases which were related to the earthquake disaster directly or indirectly constituted 44% of inpatients, 78% of emergency patients and

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... 0% of the patients of the hospital staff. Although the percentage of the patients related to the disaster decreased gradually, we corresponded to these patients during a 9-month period after the disaster. Regarding psychiatric diagnosis, there were many patients of the F0 domain among inpatients and many patients of the F4 domain among emergency patients and the staff. As for symptoms, there were much delirium and dementia among inpatients, and many symptoms were related to anxiety among emergency patients. Suicide attempts were seen by about 20% of inpatients and by about 40% of emergency patients. We considered from our experiences that the need for psychiatrists in hospitals is key for disaster relief.