According to new data collected by the Census Bureau, over 30 percent of Americans are showing symptoms of anxiety disorder or depressive disorder
In the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a third of Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety and depression,collected by the National Center for Health Statistics in partnership with the Census Bureau.
The data collection, which began on April 23 — and will continue for 90 days — was collected in the form of a 20-minute online survey called the Household Pulse Survey. The experiment was done to provide relevant information about the impact of the global health crisis on the U.S.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
Participants were asked how often they have felt bothered or showed little interest or pleasure in doing things. According to the findings, between April 23 and May 19, roughly 30 percent of Americans experienced symptoms of an anxiety disorder and nearly 24 percent experienced symptoms of a depressive disorder as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
In participants between the ages of 18 to 29, 42 percent of them reported anxiety symptoms and 36 percent of them experienced symptoms of depression.of having complications from the virus, only 11 percent of Americans ages 80 and older reported symptoms of anxiety and 9 percent reported depression symptoms.
The data also show that residents of Mississippi experienced the highest amount of symptoms of anxiety and depression of all the states in the U.S. with over 40 percent.The survey also measured the pandemic's effects on employment, household finances, education and health.
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