Have you wondered how everyone else has really been feeling during the lockdown? Well, we asked our community in the UK and they've shared their opinion. Since the start of the Global lockdown in March, the news bulletins have become repetitively miserable and even our TV adverts have merged into a single "uncertain times" but "we'll get through this together" cliche. Understandably, there's a popular perception that the lockdown has had a hugely negative impact on all our moods, but what's the reality?
We conducted a survey with our UK COVID-19 community to investigate how citizens are coping with the pandemic from a mental health perspective. This is the second post with findings from this survey.
We saw that 26% of respondents reported that they have anxiety, while 19% suffer from depression or a depressive disorder. Further investigation of these subgroups provided some extremely worrying insights.
Covid-19 has brought uncertain times, forcing businesses to change the way they work. There are many pressures causing this. Companies are trying to balance the creation of humanless interaction systems whilst providing consumers with a fair amount of leeway for purchased products.
We conducted a survey with our UK COVID-19 community to investigate how citizens are coping with the pandemic from a mental health perspective. Looking specifically at respondents’ sleep patterns and COVID-19’s impact on them, there were several key findings.
Last Friday (3rd April) we launched a study with our Citizens working with King’s College researcher Dr Daniel Allington. We turned around this piece of research in less than a week and it’s been featured in the Guardian today.
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t discriminated; it has impacted all layers of society economically, politically, socially, behaviourally, cognitively, morally and emotionally. In this update, let’s look at how UK citizens have been socialising during lockdown.
With the housing market suspended, this has left many people in a position of uncertainty about something that has large financial implications. We explore reactions to this housing freeze.
Take a look at people's change in sentiment from before and after the UK lockdown. We were able to go out to the EXACT same individuals in both waves and measure their individual change. Download the full report here.
Our heroes of the NHS are doing all that they can to contain, and to treat people with, COVID-19. Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) provision, and passing on the virus to others, are key worries among both NHS staff and the general public.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, there has been a huge shift in the ways that people engage with a medical professional. Now that people are less able to speak with someone in person, alternative methods are being adopted. Find out more here.
At the start of this week (23rd March) we sent out a survey about the latest announcement of the new ‘lockdown’ measures within an hour of it going live: here are the results.
CitizenMe COVID-19 community: an open research project, designed by - and for - the people, to help us all share information and tackle COVID-19, together.