Chinese Hospital is working on developing an application for smart phones and tablet devices, in order to help individuals fight depression and suicide.
The site said "Beijing News" mail application that includes a test to determine whether an individual is infected with depression, thus providing information to facilitate treatment in the future.
It will also monitor the application on the physical condition of the individual, and through the sensor to measure heartbeat, that includes music and feature a private chat with the robot in order to calm the anger of users in stages.
The site that the hospital "Hillongyuan", which also runs the Center for Psychiatric Research, who is working on the development of the application to be ready within 3 years.
In spite of the decline in suicide rates in China continuously until it reached to 10 people out of every 100 thousand people in 2011, the depression affects a lot of Chinese, and more than 90% of them refuse to receive treatment at the psychiatrist in charge.
Chinese officials are hoping that this solves the problem of the application of suicide and depression in the country, especially in light of the lack of psychiatrists, as statistics indicate the presence of a psychiatrist 1.53 per 100 thousand people, compared with 7.79 in the United States.
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