SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –The education ministry said Wednesday it will make a mental health test available at all elementary, middle and high schools starting in the new semester in March in an effort to detect students at risk early amid worsening problems of teenage suicide and loners. The “mind EASY test” is composed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will provide mental health tests to all school teachers who want them and, in the long run, devise an exclusive psychological testing tool to check teachers’ mental health on a regular basis, officials said Friday. The plan was released jointly by the education and health ministries amid [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Defense jointly announced the launch of a digital mental health service for soldiers starting on Monday. The service was developed by upgrading and reconfiguring the “digital wellness” service currently under development at Hanyang University, with support from the ICT [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns exist that individuals with mental disorders who choose to discontinue their treatment could experience worsened symptoms due to lack of attention and isolation from medical institutions, government, and local communities, resulting in a lack of social support. The individuals under the purview of the health authority’s case management [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans in their 20s and 30s are increasingly open about seeking therapy at outpatient psychiatry departments, data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of individuals seeking hospital treatment for depression reached 910,785 in 2021, marking a 35 percent increase [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 210,000 children and teens in South Korea visited a hospital for depression or anxiety disorders over the past four years, data from the National Health Insurance Service showed Thursday. According to the data submitted to Rep. Kim Byong-wook of the ruling People Power Party, a total of 209,565 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The early symptoms of COVID-19 affect mental health, a study indicated Monday. A research team from Seoul National University Hospital analyzed the monitoring records of 2,671 patients who contracted mild symptoms of the coronavirus and were admitted to the hospital between March 2020 and April 2022. The results showed [...]
SINGAPORE, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Research has shown that most mental disorders develop in childhood and adolescence (before the age of 25), and one-quarter of number of years lost to disability or illness for mental and substance use disorders occur in youths. Recognising the urgency to address this burgeoning issue and to galvanise the global [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of call center workers have thought about taking their own lives due to poor labor conditions and extreme emotional labor, a state human rights watchdog survey showed Wednesday. In the survey of 1,996 call center people conducted by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea from August [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than three in 10 children out of school have been suffering depression, being at risk of possibly taking one’s own life, a survey showed Wednesday. The National Youth Policy Institute (NYPI) found through a survey that 35 percent and 29 percent of out-of-school children were experiencing depression and [...]