Mental health through Covid-19
72 % of young people said that anxiety and stress had a negative effect on them and their future choices .
Lockdown and home learning had a negative effect on many young people and impacted their future choices . 72 % of young people said that their anxiety and stress impacted their decisions about their future . This is up from the 38 % who said that anxiety and stress had negatively impacted their learning in our previous survey .
This could be a result of a multitude of factors . Isolation and missing friends , limited contact with teachers , uncertainty about the future ( at this time it was relatively unclear how exam results would be calculated ). 53 % of young people said that learning from home had negatively effected them and their ability to make future choices .
There was a drop in the number of respondents who said they had a mental health condition in this survey when compared to our last survey ( 28 % to 15 %). However we re-worded this question on the follow up survey to ask wether respondents had a diagnosed mental health condition as opposed to asking wether respondents had a mental health condition without the emphasis on the diagnosis . However it also possible that part of this drop could be attributed to fewer young people with mental health conditions interacting with this kind of survey over lock-down .
Anxiety and stress had more of a negative affect on girls compared to boys when it came to making decisions about their futures . 72 % of girls said that anxiety and stress had a negative affect on decisions about their future whereas , this fell to 60 % of boys . This was similar with sadness , depression and low mood , 68 % of girls say sadness depression and low mood affected them compared to 52 % of boys .
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