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Monday March 12, 9:58 PMOne in seven women aged 20 to 24, or 15 percent of ...(Kyodo) _ One in seven women aged 20 to 24, or 15 percent of them, have injured themselves in such ways as cutting their wrists, according to a survey of a research team at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry released Monday."We cannot deny the possibility that pessimism has become a prevalent mood among young women particularly and that bitter feelings about society have caused them to harm themselves," said Kunio Kitamura, head of the Japan Family Planning Association Clinic, who took charge of the survey. The survey was conducted last November on some 1,400 men and women between 16 and 49 years old, mainly to research their sexual behavior. Surveys of this kind were previously conducted in 2002 and 2004 but this was the first time that the survey had covered self-inflicted injuries. Out of all respondents, 6 percent of women and 2 percent of men had inflicted injuries on themselves at some point, while a further 19 percent of women and 13 percent of men had thought of doing so, according to the survey. For women aged 20 to 24, 11 percent said they had injured themselves several times, 4 percent said they did so just once and 25 percent said they had thought about doing so. Among men in the same age bracket, 5 percent had injured themselves. |
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