Endokrinologie und Diabetesforschung

Devising Specific Measures to Deal with Elementary and Junior High School Students Who Refuse to Attend School: Suggestions for Further Efforts Based on Recent Data

Ken Inoue, Sadayuki Hashioka, Yasuyuki Fujita, Shigeto Moriwaki, Masanori Kamura and Haruo Takeshita

There are numerous social issues that need to be quickly addressed in Japan [1-5]. Some of these issues concern children [6-8], and one such issue is refusal to attend school. Over the years from 1995-2006 the proportion of Japanese children who refused to attend school increased until 2001, but that proportion plateaued from 2002-2006 [9]. Recent trends in refusal to attend school need to be studied in detail, and specific measures to deal with refusal to attend school need to be devised.