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.
Advisory Committee Chairman on Mental Health and Senior Barrister Wong Yan-lung, Prof. Eric CHEN Yu Hai from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong, and Dr. Stephanie Ming Yin Wong, a dedicated researcher at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong, held a press conference to announce the research findings….