| Category | Subcategory |
| Radiation | Food safety |
| Outdoor safety | |
| Influence on an unborn child | |
| Influence on children | |
| Influence of radiation on the human body | |
| Financial damage | |
| Distrust of public announcements | |
| Child’s physical and mental growth/development | Mental impact of disaster experience |
| Mental impact of parents’ instability | |
| Developmental delay and issues | |
| Illness | |
| Future health condition | |
| Weight loss or gain | |
| Recurrence of earthquake and tsunami, and aftershocks | Ability to protect children |
| Evacuation | |
| Recurrence | |
| Anxiety during the time apart from one’s own child | |
| Anxiety during husband’s absence | |
| Lifelines | |
| Financial issues | Housing loan issues caused by the earthquake |
| Financial damage caused by the earthquake | |
| Money for the future | |
| Living expenses | |
| Reserve for child’s education | |
| Consumption tax increase | |
| Low income due to a single parent household | |
| Childrearing environment | Playground |
| New neighborhood | |
| Daycare center | |
| Child’s making friends | |
| Mother’s making friends | |
| Shortage of pediatricians | |
| Future life after childbirth | |
| New school | |
| Living environment | Unable to find permanent housing |
| Remaining in a disaster area | |
| Life in temporary housing | |
| Reconstruction | |
| Crimes | |
| Maternal employment | Returning to work |
| Daycare for children while working | |
| Balance between work and childrearing | |
| Child’s becoming ill | |
| Job search | |
| Responsibilities at the workplace | |
| Sense of guilt over sending child to daycare center | |
| Sense of guilt about maternity leave |