Life is starting to resume – even if there is a small increase in Covid contaminations – and the restrictions are moving away, yet the morale of the French is not good. It even has a tendency to fall, as the last wave of CoviPrev surveysconducted between September 28 and October 5 on a sample of 2,000 people.
The objective of CoviPrev is to understand how the mental health of French people evolves over the Covid-19 epidemic. This is the 28th survey carried out, which reveals that it is more difficult for the French to have a positive perception of their life in general: they are 80%, or 5% less than in periods outside the epidemic.
But what is particularly worrying on reading the results of the survey is the prevalence of people showing depression : they are 16%. Outside the epidemic period, they were 6% less. And during the survey carried out this summer (wave 26) in July, they were 3% less.
Generalized sleep problems
The winter period approaching, life in the office resuming its way, the French are 26% to present signs of anxiety, 7 points more than this summer. They generally have great difficulty sleeping: 70% of respondents say they have had sleep problems in the last 8 daysi.e. 11 points more than last July and 20 points more than in a “normal” period, the 2017 barometer estimated that 49% had this type of disorder.
The survey specifies that anxiety states and sleep-related problems affect especially womenas well as the 25-34 age group, which is also prone to suicidal thoughts. Although social life can resume more or less normally since the introduction of the health pass, the mental health of the people questioned continues to deteriorate and underlines that the health crisis has a lasting impact on the morale of the French population.
Source : CoviPrev wave 28 survey, Public Health France, October 22, 2021.
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