{"id":40637,"date":"2021-01-02T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=40637"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:51:19","slug":"infographic-u-s-pandemic-mental-health-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=40637","title":{"rendered":"Infographic – U.S. Pandemic Mental Health Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2 Jan. 2021. Half of American adults in a recent opinion poll report worry or stress from the pandemic is having a negative effect on their mental health. The findings are reported in the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll<\/a>, conducted in early December 2020, and our first infographic of 2021.<\/p>\n

Results from the survey show 51 percent of respondents, interviewed by telephone, believe pandemic-related worry or stress is taking a toll on their mental health. That’s roughly the same percentage (53%) found in the Kaiser Foundation’s July 2020 survey<\/a> asking the same question. Respondents indicating pandemic worry or stress is having a negative impact on their mental health are divided evenly between those considering the effects major (25%) or minor (26%).<\/p>\n

Women are more likely than men, by 57 to 44 percent, to report mental health effects from worry or stress caused by Covid-19, while more than six in 10 younger American adults (63%) also are finding these mental health impacts, compared to half or fewer of Americans age 30 and over (from 51% to 45%). Likewise, half or more of Black (57%) and Hispanic (54%) Americans report negative mental health effects from pandemic-caused worries, compared to about half (49%) of White Americans.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Kaiser Foundation survey finds economic factors add to stresses experienced from the pandemic. Six in 10 (60%) of respondents who indicate they or their spouse lost income since the Covid-19 outbreak say pandemic worries are taking a toll on their mental health, compared to less than half (44%) not losing income since the start of the pandemic. And, in a related question, half of American adults (51%) believe the worst of the pandemic is yet to come, compared to a quarter (25%) who say the worst is behind us, and a fifth (19%) indicating Covid-19 is or will not be a serious problem.<\/p>\n

The Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll surveyed 1,676 American adults<\/a> between 30 Nov. and 8 Dec. 2020. Both landline and cell phone exchanges were sampled, and Black and Hispanic Americans were over-sampled to allow for meaningful sample sizes for breakouts of those groups.<\/p>\n

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