A new survey warns of the impact that the health crisis has had on the youngest but shows that pessimism has decreased compared to 2020
A new study warns of the serious problem that doctors and some surveys have been warning about for months: the pandemic has taken its toll and has increased the mental health problems among young people. Specifically, the percentage of people between the ages of 15 and 29 who reported suffering psychological problems with some or a great deal of frequency has gone from 6.2% to 24% from 2019 to 2022, according to the study ‘Young people in full development and pandemic crisis’ prepared by the FAD and Pfizer foundations and presented this Thursday.
Research reveals that they are women those who suffer more psychological problems and the group of young people between 20 and 24 years of age who most declare an increase in the frequency of negative thoughts. In general, one in three young people surveyed believes that nothing can be fixed, that everything will get worse and that it is a failed. And one in four that is a burden to others and that life is a useless burden.
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Although the survey shows a panorama of youthful pessimism, due to a context of crisis that has increased uncertainties, health and economic problems, also contains a halo of hope given that this pessimism has been reduced with respect to the sensations among young Spaniards in 2020, in the hardest phase of the pandemic. It highlights that, for almost 60% of those surveyed, covid has had a great impact and has produced personal changes. 55.7% believe that these changes will be permanent and a similar percentage states that they have the feeling that these changes will be positive.
The survey was carried out with a sample of 1,200 young people between the ages of 15 and 29 during the months of February and March 2022.