Almost 2 million people in Hong Kong are estimated to have experienced symptoms of PTSD during months of social unrest in the city, research says
Researchers from the University of Hong Kong surveyed 18,000 people between 2009 and 2019 in what they said was the world's largest and longest study of the population-wide impact of social unrest on mental health.Of those surveyed, 32% reported signs of
in recent months, according to the researchers. is an anxiety disorder that manifests after a traumatic experience and can cause sleeplessness, irritability and traumatic nightmares. Hong Kong's pro-democracy supporters take part in an anti-government march on New Years Day.Protests erupted in Hong Kong in June over a now-scrapped extradition bill that would have allowed suspects to be sent to mainland China.
symptoms, and 590,000 more with probable depression. "Hong Kong is under-resourced to deal with this excess mental health burden," Professor Gabriel Leung from the University of Hong Kong, who co-led the research, said in statement.
symptoms in the adult population was six times higher in 2019 than after the city's so-called Umbrella Movement -- a 79-day, largely peaceful civil disobedience campaign calling for universal suffrage -- rising from about 5% in March 2015 to nearly 32% in September to November 2019. They acknowledged that their findings provide observational associations rather than prove any cause and effect.
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