University of Hong Kong: 16.6% of Hong Kong Youth at Risk of Mental Illness in 2022

University of Hong Kong: 16.6% of Hong Kong Youth at Risk of Mental Illness in 2022
Research team at the University of Hong Kong found that the prevalence rate of possible mental illness among Hong Kong youth in 2022 is 16.6%. Benson Lau/Epoch Times
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The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong analyzed over 3,000 Hong Kong youth and found that the prevalence rate of possible mental illness among them in the past year (2022) is 16.6 percent, with depression being the most common. Shockingly, among those at risk of mental illness, a staggering 74.1 percent have not received any psychiatric or psychological services.

From 2019 to 2022, the University of Hong Kong conducted a community survey called the “HK-YES Study,” using epidemiological methods to understand the prevalence rate of mental illness, the rate of inadequate help-seeking, and risk factors for mental crisis among Hong Kong youth.