Stress levels are higher in India since Covid-19 pandemic: report
According to a new report, India has been struck with an increase in headaches directly linked to stress levels, which have themselves been rising since the start of the pandemic
The pandemic has evidently had an impact on mental health, at least in the short term. But it's more complicated to determine whether the phenomenon is affecting all populations worldwide, and whether its effects can take hold over a longer period. According to a new report, India has been hit hard, with an increase in headaches directly linked to stress levels, which have themselves been rising since the start of the pandemic.
Often regarded as one of the major public health issues of our time, along with sedentary lifestyles, the deterioration of mental health is such that in 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on "mental health decision makers and advocates to step up commitment and action to change attitudes, actions and approaches to mental health, its determinants and mental health care." In the same report, the global health authority recalls that, in 2019, ie, before the pandemic, nearly a billion people were living with a mental disorder, including 14% of adolescents, and that depression and anxiety levels jumped by more than 25% in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic alone.
Work pressure and financial problems
A new report conducted by HANSA Research for Saridon, a drug brand from Bayer's Consumer Health division in India, reveals that the world's most populous country has not escaped this worrying trend—quite the contrary. Over 5,310 people aged between 22 and 45 from 20 cities were interviewed for the study, which reports that 93% of respondents who experienced headaches reported a significant increase in headaches, linked to elevated stress levels. This finding should be viewed in the context of another figure: one in three people surveyed considered themselves to be more stressed post pandemic, although the causes cited by the panel were not (all) directly linked to health issues.Also read: What keeps Gen Z and millennials awake at night? Here's what the numbers say
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July 07, 23 10:59:08 AM IST