CRIME MINISTER doesn’t care but COVID continues to have a negative effect on Canadians’ mental health
‘Among adults in Canada, the prevalence of suicidal ideation since the pandemic began was 4.2%, which was significantly higher than the pre-pandemic prevalence of 2.7% in 2019,’ says Statistics Canada.
The fear of getting sick or getting someone else sick, the isolation periods and being distant from others.
According to Statistics Canada, the mental health among Canadians has “worsened since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic” and a study was done to identify those who have “mental health difficulties and to quantify the relationships between mental health profiles, negative impacts related to the pandemic and suicidal ideation.”
As StatsCan explains:
Three mental health profiles were identified. Individuals were classified as having no mental health difficulties (Profile 1, 65.70%), low-to-moderate mental
health difficulties (Profile 2, 25.52%) and severe mental health difficulties (Profile 3, 8.78%).
Among individuals with severe mental health difficulties, one in five (19.09%) had contemplated suicide since the onset of the pandemic.
Overall, adults aged 65 and older (versus 18 to 34 years) were at decreased odds of experiencing emotional distress, difficulty in meeting financial obligations or essential needs, the loss of a job or income, feelings of loneliness or isolation, physical health problems, challenges in personal relationships with members of their household, other impacts and suicidal ideation.
In a study from earlier this year, researchers found that, “Among adults in Canada, the prevalence of suicidal ideation since the pandemic began was 4.2%, which was significantly higher than the pre-pandemic prevalence of 2.7% in 2019.”
“The percentage of people who had experienced suicidal ideation didn’t change all that much from pre-pandemic to during the pandemic,” said Michelle Guerrero, an analyst at Statistics Canada. “But what our study really highlighted is that this number drastically changes depending on your mental health difficulties.”
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