Talk:Mental health in China

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The entire History section of this article only has one source, which is only one page of a book. This section should have more sources to verify, expand upon, and diversify the information in this section. Citations also need to be added in the "political infringement on human rights" subsection. There is a decent amount of biased language in this article that paints the way China handles mental health issues as wrong or backwards (including language such as "political infringement on human rights". Work should be done to make the article have a neutral point of view. The cultural reticence section addresses improper diagnoses from health professionals but not about environment in the home or society at large that contributes to lack of diagnosis or treatment whatsoever, which is definitely present. This section could be expanded to include that information. Mhvla (talk) 22:21, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Adding a section of mental health, particularly emphasizing military personnel
Please review my article and sources as it pertains to this article. I am hoping to add a section concerning the research and future directions (recommended by researchers) on how military mental health is in China.

1. Zhao, M., Feng, Z., Wang, F., Lai, W., Hu, F…Xia, L. (2017). Chinese military mental health at high altitude, 1993-2013: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of SCL-90. Acta Psychologica Sinica. 49(5), pp. 653-662 Those with higher education’s tend to have less mental health issues. Lack of diversity in methodology of research. Measures are too unitary. Important factors that influence mental health includes social support. Military education is now moving from a medical model to a psychological perspective with an emphasis on prevention, but still needs improvement. 2. Wang Y., Zhang, L., Chen, C., Yao, G. (2012) Application of Chinese Military Health Scale in screening mental health of new recruits. Medical and Health Research Foundation of PLA. 37(5) pp. 420-4 Studies in mental health has been slow but progressing at a fast rate. CMMHS may be a better measurement tool for screening out mental disorders in new recruits because its more specific and more sensitive. It does not differ in how effective it is compared to other measures. 3. Ge, Y., Ma, K., Cai, W., Zhang, S,. Wei, D. (2018) Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and psychological health. Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University. (Vol. 39) pg. 92-96 One of the methods that they recommend to screening out new recruits is to have those who are predisposed to being resilient against anxiety. Resiliency has been associated with better coping strategies for military personnel to better integrate back into their normal lives because they have great personal abilities, can withstand pressure, and willing to handle pressure. 4. Moore, M. (2013, May). Chinese troops suffering post-traumatic stress disorder in Tibet. The Telegraph. Retrieved from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/10071121/Chinese-troops-suffering-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-Tibet.html In 2013, the leaked manual of how to deal with PTSD for solders in Tibet. For example it quoted zooming in and out of a situation or taking walks for depression. 5 Yan J, Wang LJ , Cheng Q , Miao D.M., Zhang L.Y…Pan, Y. (2008) Estimated mental health and analysis of relative factors for new Chinese recruits. Mil Med 173(10) pp. 1031 – 4.

Examines how psychoeducation could help recruits of the Chinese military by targeting psychoeducation and earlier training methodologies. As part of vetting out the recruits that will join their ranks, they examine other factors that may attribute to stability of the mind, such as being a single child.

6. .Chen H.H., Phillips, M.R., Cheng, H., Chen, Q.Q, Chen, X.D…Bueber, M. (2012) Mental Health Law of the People’s Republic of China. Shanghai Arch Psychiatry 24(6) pg. 305-321

China had established its first national mental health law in 2012 and this document is a direct translation. In article 84, it states “the State Council and the Central Military Committee will formulate regulations based on this law to manage mental health work in the military.

7. Tan, Y., Li, Y., Wu, J., Chen, F., Lu, H., Lu, S., Yang, X., … Ma, X. (2018). Mental health of Automobile Transportation Troop personnel stationed in the Western Sichuan Plateau of China. Medicine, 97(12),

The mental health status of those who work in the plateau are generally categorized as good; however, there still needs to be a lot of work done concerning psychoeducation and incorporating more mental health training in its manual.

8.Yang, Z., Cao, F., Lu, H., Zhu, X., Miao, D. (2014) Changes of anxiety in Chinese Military personnels over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 8

Since 1991, Chinese military personnel’s level of anxiety has increased and how it may be possibly linked to social factors like overall threat, economic conditions (i.e unemployment because military get paid less), and social conditions (i.e crime rate).

9. Buckley, C. (2018, June). Marching Across China, Army Veterans Join Ranks of Protesters. NY Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-veterans-protests.html

Military members protest due to unfair circumstances. Xiping promised that the Ministry of Veteran Affairs will help those veterans that are need of assistance.

10. Sun, X., Zhao, L., Chen, C., Cui, X., Guo, J., Zhang, L. (2014). Mental Health of Chinese Peacekeepers in Liberia. Eur J. Psychiat 28, pg 77-85

Compared to other Chinese servicemen, Chinese peacekeepers had worse mental health status. One confounding variable they found was that the higher level of education implies better coping mechanisms. This tells me about studying mental health in certain situations such as Liberia. It also gave me lots of background information, such as psychological screening for militia since 1950s. This study does not include servicewoman and all the researchers were part of the Chinese Liberation Army.

11. Feng Zhengzhi,Qin, D.(2008) A Meta-Analysis Concerning the Mental Health Status of Members of the Chinese Army. Third Military Medical University. 40(03). pp. 358-367.

Mental health research results have not yielded consistent results. Depending on the tasks performed or the area, the status has shown signs of improvement or those still need of improvement.

12. Wang, X., He. X. (2015) Progress of Chinese Military Mental Health. J Third Mil Med Univ, 37(22) pp. 2213-2217

Development of a mental health handbook and applying that to the military training that is currently present which can raise up mental health status. The measures that are developed are not diverse in its methodologies to assess the mental health status of military personnel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PinkLime222 (talk • contribs) 04:55, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

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Source: self-published on a website builder platform?
Is there any reason that http://mentalhealthinchina.weebly.com/ is being allowed as a source for anything here? It may as well be mentalhealthchina.wordpress.com or mentalhealthchina.tumblr.com. There is absolutely no reason to think that this website is in any way the slightest bit reliable. I'm going to remove every instance of it in this article, and remove anything that was supported by it that does not have another backing source. If you want to add back content that was being backed by this source, please do so with a WP:RS. Kimen8 (talk) 18:46, 10 December 2023 (UTC)


 * To follow on, there are several sources in here that should in no way be considered reliable. I am going to look through and remove more of those as well. Kimen8 (talk) 18:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)