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Schools to Offer Mental Health Tests for At-Risk Students

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 [...]

Senior Citizens Who Lack Exercise Have Higher Suicidal Thoughts

SEONGNAM, Dec.31 (Korea Bizwire) – New Research has indicated that the elderly who maintain unhealthy exercising habit have a higher tendency to commit suicide. Professor Kim Gi-woong and his team at the mental health department of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, observed 655 senior citizens over the age of 60 residing in Osan, Gyeonggi province. [...]