Third, the treatment rate among Chinese people
with severe mental illness is low. According to Ran
et al.'s (2003) study, only 5.9% of people with
schizophrenia accepted antipsychotic drug treatment;
more than one third of participants in his
study never accepted any treatment (Ran et al.,
2003). A disturbing finding was based on Shen et
al.'s (2006) study that 80.2% of those with
moderate and severe mental illness did not receive
12-months of treatment, even in Beijing and
Shanghai (Shen et al., 2006).