Health monitoring of population residing in radio-ontaminated areas using novel monitoring devises.

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In order to step up and improve our understanding of how to approach the younger generation around Chernobyl, we screened mental health status among young adults born after the accident living in Gomel region, Belarus. We enrolled 697 medical students who were born after the accident. Participants were asked to answer to self-administered questionnaires including General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12).GHQ-12 scores were 1.80 among all 697 subjects. When logistic regression analysis was performed with confounding factors, "economic situation" and "association of diseases and/or poor health condition with radiation exposure" was significantly associated with poor mental status. Our findings suggest that anxiety to radiation exposure among highly educated medical students in Gomel region who were born even after the accident affects to their poor mental health status.