"Figure 7: About 86% of people in each country and region of Britain said they had felt either stressed, anxious or worried about the future or that their mental health had become worse","" "Percentage of people who reported that their well-being had been impacted by stress or anxiety as a result of the coronavirus, country or region, 3 April to 3 May 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Lower and upper 95% confidence levels form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of an estimate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated estimate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures. 2. People who selected the categories ""feeling stressed or anxious"", ""feeling worried about the future"", or ""making my mental health worse"" from a list of 13 categories presented to them when asked the question ""In the past seven days, how has your well-being being affected?"", and had already responded that ""my well-being is being affected"" when asked the question ""In which way is Coronavirus (COVID-19) affecting your life?"" and that they were ""very worried"" or ""somewhat worried"" when asked the question ""How worried or unworried are you about the effect that Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having on your life right now?"". Respondents were able to select all categories that applied. 3. Base population for percentage: adults aged 16 years or over who reported that their well-being had been affected and that they were very worried or somewhat worried about the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on their life." "Unit","%" "","" "Country or region","Estimated percentage","Lower 95% confidence level","Upper 95% confidence level" "East Midlands","89.6","83.1","96.0" "South West","89.4","83.9","94.9" "Scotland","88.3","84.0","92.7" "London","87.4","81.2","93.6" "South East","86.6","81.7","91.5" "Wales","86.3","80.7","91.9" "Yorkshire and The Humber","86.0","77.5","94.5" "East of England","85.9","79.3","92.6" "North West","84.5","79.4","89.5" "North East","83.4","76.5","90.3" "West Midlands","81.7","73.7","89.7"