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Coronavirus (COVID-19): mental health tracker study - wave 1 report
Findings of wave 1 of the Scottish COVID-19 (SCOVID) Mental Health Tracker Study based on questionnaire data collected between 28 May and 21 June 2020 (a period which coincided with the Phase 1 easing of lockdown measures).
Annex 7. Perceived financial coping pre and during COVID-19
| Group | Pre COVID-19 % | Wave 1 % | Self-perceived changes in finance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managing well/ok (n= 2334) | Not managing well (n= 181) | Managing well/ok (n= 2201) | Not managing well (n= 313) | Better (n= 116) | No change (n= 1916) | Worse (n= 482) | |
| Age groups | |||||||
| 18-29 | 88.6 | 11.4 | 81.8 | 18.2 | 9.7 | 61.6 | 28.7 |
| 30-59 | 91.5 | 8.5 | 84.5 | 15.5 | 3.7 | 75.4 | 20.8 |
| 60+ | 98.1 | 1.9 | 96.8 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 88.9 | 9.1 |
| Gender | |||||||
| Female | 94.0 | 6.0 | 86.8 | 13.2 | 4.5 | 74.3 | 21.3 |
| Male | 91.9 | 8.1 | 88.6 | 11.4 | 4.8 | 78.2 | 17.0 |
| SEG | |||||||
| Low | 88.8 | 11.2 | 82.4 | 17.6 | 5.4 | 73.8 | 20.8 |
| High | 95.4 | 4.6 | 90.8 | 9.2 | 4.1 | 77.2 | 18.3 |
| Carers | |||||||
| Not a carer/ <5hours | 93.5 | 6.5 | 88.3 | 11.7 | 4.4 | 77.5 | 18.0 |
| Carer 5hrs+ | 87.3 | 12.7 | 80.9 | 19.1 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 67.2 |
| Households | |||||||
| No under 16 | 93.2 | 6.8 | 88.5 | 11.5 | 4.1 | 78.6 | 17.3 |
| Under 16 | 91.7 | 8.3 | 84.5 | 15.5 | 6.3 | 68.8 | 25.0 |
| Live with others | 93.5 | 6.5 | 88.1 | 11.9 | 5.1 | 74.8 | 20.2 |
| Living alone | 90.5 | 9.5 | 85.3 | 14.7 | 3.0 | 81.1 | 15.9 |
| Key workers | |||||||
| No | 92.8 | 7.2 | 87.0 | 13.0 | 3.5 | 77.0 | 19.5 |
| Yes | 93.0 | 7.0 | 89.5 | 10.5 | 9.2 | 72.9 | 18.0 |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| White | 93.0 | 7.0 | 87.8 | 12.2 | 4.5 | 76.9 | 18.6 |
| BAME | 90.2 | 9.8 | 82.1 | 17.9 | 6.6 | 63.1 | 30.3 |
| Residential area | |||||||
| Rural | 93.3 | 6.7 | 87.5 | 12.5 | 5.2 | 73.5 | 21.3 |
| Urban | 92.7 | 7.3 | 87.5 | 12.5 | 4.5 | 76.9 | 18.6 |
| Pre-existing mental health condition | |||||||
| No MH | 94.4 | 5.6 | 89.7 | 10.3 | 4.7 | 76.4 | 19.0 |
| Yes MH | 82.4 | 17.6 | 73.0 | 27.0 | 4.2 | 74.9 | 20.8 |
| Shielding or high risk | |||||||
| Not shielding | 93.1 | 6.9 | 87.8 | 12.3 | 4.4 | 76.6 | 19.0 |
| Shielding | 89.1 | 10.9 | 87.3 | 12.7 | 7.9 | 70.9 | 21.2 |
| Not High risk | 91.9 | 8.1 | 86.3 | 13.7 | 5.2 | 74.1 | 20.7 |
| High risk | 95.9 | 4.1 | 92.3 | 7.7 | 2.6 | 84.0 | 13.4 |
| Working status | |||||||
| No change | 92.7 | 7.3 | 89.8 | 10.2 | 2.9 | 86.1 | 11.0 |
| Change | 92.9 | 7.1 | 85.2 | 14.8 | 6.5 | 65.7 | 27.9 |
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