The canaries, those who see the end of the pandemic the furthest

Two years after the start of covid, Spaniards continue to suffer the psychological impact of exhaustion and pandemic fatigue

Two years after the start of covid, 85% of Spaniards continue to suffer the psychological impact of exhaustion and pandemic fatigue, the same proportion as in 2021,
effects that are intensified in women (89%) and young people (94%), the canaries being the ones who see the end of this crisis the furthest.

These data are collected in a survey by the Trends Observatory, promoted by the pharmaceutical distributor Cofares, which for two years has been monitoring
health habits and worry of the population after the outbreak of the coronavirus.

This report, released two years after the first state of alarm for the new virus, focuses on the effects of covid on mental health. The results are similar to those of this same survey a year ago.

The sadness it reaches 85% of the population, fatigue 82.9% and irritability 81.3%. 76.8 percent of those surveyed admit concentration difficulties.

66.4 percent do not believe that the coronavirus will become an endemic virus -like the flu- for more than a year, which deepens the feeling of exhaustion; 33.6% believe that this will happen in the summer or in the coming months.

Others
emotions, sensations and effects They have broken into this second year of the pandemic with greater force, according to this study, such as helplessness, which 77 percent feel; difficulty sleeping (72.2%) and loss of appetite (44.8%).

Generation Z, between 18 and 25 years old, is the one that sees the end of the pandemic the furthest (71.2%).

By region, they are the Canary Islands (88%)Castilla-La Mancha (76.7%), Aragón (76%) and the Valencian Community (72 percent) who see the conclusion of the covid furthest away.

For ages, the successive waves of
l SARS-CoV-2 They have affected Generation Z more psychologically and in mental exhaustion, with 94%; Millennials (26-35 years old) with 89.6%; Generation X (36-55 years old), with 82%; and Boomers (+ 55 years), with 77.7 percent.

By gender,
women are the ones who state that they have experienced the symptoms of the pandemic the most after two years living with the virus and the continuous restrictions (89 percent).

According to the
sixth wave of the pandemicin which we still find ourselves, nine out of 10 Spaniards affirm that its consequences and effects have had an emotional impact on them due to the increase in infections due to the different variants -ómicron or delta-, among other reasons.

Other emotional consequences of this sixth wavewith lower percentages of impact, are frustration and discouragement (28.1%), absence of family and social relationships to avoid contagion (19.4%), nervousness and information saturation (17.6%), social impact of confinements and quarantines due to positives (15.7%), social and leisure restrictions (11%) and protection measures (8.2%).

This
The Cofares Trends Observatory survey was conducted online between January 24 and 27, 2022on a sample of 1,076 people, in a universe of adults from 18 to over 55 years old with quotas by sex, age and area, in a representative manner at the national level.