Most of all, people were worried about the pandemic, illness of loved ones, job loss and the situation in the east of the country.
The survey showed how many Ukrainians experienced stress in 2019 / Photo: pixabay.com
Post-COVID depression is an ordeal. During 2021, more than half of Ukrainians (69%) experienced some kind of stress. Sociologists say that this is a record number over the past 10 years. Most of all people were worried about the situation with the coronavirus, reports kiis.
The Kiev International Institute of Sociology provided the results of the survey, which show that in total 29% of the people surveyed did not experience a single stressful situation in 2021. But this is much less than in 2019. Before the pandemic, which began in 2019, 49% of Ukrainians lived without stress.
Sociologists say that over the past 3 years, COVID-19 has greatly exhausted people. This is especially true for those who have experienced illness or, even worse, the death of loved ones.
What Ukrainians most often worried about in 2021:
- Death of relatives (19%) – 3% more than in 2020
- Severe illness, surgery (18%) – 3% more than 2020
- Illness of loved ones (16%) – the same result in 2020
- Unemployment (11%) – 2% less than 2020
- Other reasons (10%) – similar in 2020.
Comparing the results with those obtained for the period from 2013 to 2019, it turns out that from 2020 to 2021, the number of those who survived the death of relatives almost doubled.
However, during the period from 2019 to 2021, fewer people felt unwanted and useless compared to the period from 2013 to 2018.
Sociologists say that in 2021, women were more likely to experience stress – 73% compared to 63% among the men surveyed; rural residents – 73% versus 67% of urban residents; poor and middle-income people – 75% versus 53% financially successful.
The number of people who have not experienced stress has been decreasing since 2013, when the conflict began in the east of the country – the figure has fallen from 48% to 34%.
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Source: Segodnya
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