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In Depth: What’s Behind China’s Growing Problem With Child Depression

By Zhao Jinzhao, Fan Qiaojia, Dai Fankai and Cai Xuejiao
2022年03月22日 16:42
As cases soar among young people, patchy preventative treatment means patients don’t reach doctors until they’re already in a serious state
The rate of depression among Chinese adolescents approached 25% in 2020, of which more than 7% of cases qualified as severe, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences’s Institute of Psychology. Photo: VCG

Cao Qingjiu and his colleagues at Peking University Sixth Hospital see working overtime as the norm. As one of fewer than 500 psychiatrists in China focused on children and adolescents, he has a heavy caseload of depressed young people. They account for 70% of the department’s outpatients, he told Caixin.

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