One out of 27 people between the ages of 5 and 19 are treated
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Last year, one in 27 children and adolescents in Korea was treated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or depression.
According to an analysis of data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service by the teachers’ group Good Teachers’ Movement on the 13th, 152,200 children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 received treatment for ADHD last year and 88,500 patients received treatment for depression. A total of 247,700 teenagers suffered from both diseases, or 3.7% of the total child and adolescent population (about 6.58 million). This means that one in 27 teenagers in this age group is being treated for ADHD or depression.
This is a nearly three-fold increase in eight years compared to 2017, when more than 88,800 people were treated.
By age, the proportion of patients with ADHD was the highest at 2.9% between the ages of 5 and 9, followed by those aged 10-14 (2.6%) and those aged 15-19 (1.7%). In the case of depression, the rate of 15-19 years old was the highest at 2.9%, followed by 10-14 years old (0.84%) and 5-9 years old (0.14%).
The Good Teachers’ Movement predicts that if the current trend continues, the number of ADHD patients will exceed 300,000 and depression patients will exceed 150,000 by 2030.
The group pointed out, “The Wee Project” is being operated for school violence and school maladjusted students, but the deployment rate of professional counselors is less than 50%, and the rate of secondary institutional connection after the emotional behavioral characteristics test is more than 27%.”
He then emphasized, “We need to deploy teachers specializing in emotional and behavioral support to schools to establish a response system for mental health problems and to prepare an early intervention system at the school level.”