{"id":391347,"date":"2025-09-02T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391347\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:45:24","slug":"20-of-hong-kong-secondary-students-face-depression-anxiety-and-stress-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391347\/","title":{"rendered":"20% of Hong Kong secondary students face depression, anxiety and stress: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">About 20 per cent of Hong Kong secondary school students showed moderate to severe depression, anxiety and stress according to a survey, prompting experts to recommend training pupils in peer emotional support ahead of the new academic year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service announced the findings of its study on Sunday, after interviewing over 1,800 secondary school students between November and March.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The proportion of students experiencing moderate to very severe levels of stress rose from 17.9 per cent last year to 20.8 per cent this year, which researchers described as an \u201calarming situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Common symptoms of stress include getting upset over minor issues, facing numerous stressors and feeling annoyed when interrupted.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Thomas Fung Chak-tong, assistant service head of the children and youth development service, said that the situation was similar to last year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He noted that males scored higher in life satisfaction than females, and junior secondary students scored higher than senior secondary students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 20 per cent of Hong Kong secondary school students showed moderate to severe depression, anxiety and stress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[135592,2665,135588,1301,78675,135586,105,3749,135591,218,135590,15642,135589,4920,15065,135593,16,15,135587],"class_list":{"0":"post-391347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-academic-procrastination","9":"tag-anxiety","10":"tag-baptist-oi-kwan-social-service","11":"tag-depression","12":"tag-emotional-distress","13":"tag-emotional-well-being-ambassadors","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-jeff-kei-ching-nam","17":"tag-mental-health","18":"tag-scarlet-poon-fung-oi","19":"tag-school","20":"tag-secondary-school-students","21":"tag-stress","22":"tag-students","23":"tag-thomas-fung-chak-tong","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-university-entrance-exams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115133593861487654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}