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这几天看新闻，总有些闹心的事情（或者是为了追看这些闹事的事情而闹心？）：一个公车司机在极度不愿意的顶班工作中在大马路上横冲直撞来发泄，一位失恋的女子在4楼引爆煤气自杀，将整层楼掏空,还有成都公交车的“创伤后遗症”——由于担心（惊弓之鸟）而砸碎玻璃窗。中国的心理健康问题没有得到很大的重视，也许去年的地震及以后的心理重建工作耗掉了太多的心理医生资源？也许。纽约时报是这样报道的：
The burden of mental illness in China has been seriously underestimated, the authors of a new study say. More than 17 percent of Chinese adults have a mental disorder, the study concluded — far more than the 1 to 9 percent reported in studies done between 1982 and 2004. Prevalence, treatment, and associated disability of mental disorders in four provinces in China during 2001—05: an epidemiological survey (The Lancet) To do the study, published in the journal Lancet last week, researchers at Columbia University and major psychiatric hospitals in Beijing, Shandong, Zhejiang, Qinghai and Gansu screened 63,000 adults with questionnaires, and psychiatrists interviewed more than 16,000 of them, often in local dialects. The research was financed by the World Health Organization, the Shandong provincial health department and the China Medical Board of New York, an independent medical foundation begun in 1914 by the Rockefeller Foundation, which supports medical education and research across AsiaThe most disturbing aspect of their research, the authors said, was that, among those who had a diagnosable mental illness, 24 percent said they were moderately or severely disabled by it. But only 8 percent had ever sought professional help, and only 5 percent had ever seen a mental health professional.
People from rural areas were more likely to be depressed and have alcohol problems than urbanites, the study found. Mood and anxiety disorders were more common in people over 40 and among women, while alcohol abuse was much more common among men.
Although the authors did not reflect at length on the role of China’s economic rise, which has led to mass migrations of poor people to the cities, they acknowledged that they were measuring some effects. |
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发表于 2009-6-30 09:02:00
