Results of latest public engagement survey from Public Health Wales

16 Nov 2020 02:10 PM

The results of the latest ‘How Are We Doing in Wales’ public engagement survey have been released by Public Health Wales.

The key findings are:

• 62% of people said they strongly supported a national Welsh lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus (25% somewhat supported, 13% did not support)
• 21% of people said they were very worried they could get coronavirus (33% moderately worried, 29% a little worried, 17% not at all worried)
• 22% of people said they had been in close contact with more than 10 people from outside their household (or permitted extended household) in the last 7 days
• 70% of people wear a face covering ‘most of the time’ when they go out (24% some of the time, 6% never/not applicable). 67% use re-usable cloth face coverings and 51% use disposable face masks*. (*Participants could report using both types of face covering)
• 51% of people that use re-usable cloth face coverings wash them after every day of use. 32% wash after 2-4 days of use; 10% 5-10 days of use; 2% more than 10 days and 5% have never washed them.
• 67% of people that use disposable face masks dispose of them after every use, whereas 33% do not
• 40% of people are concerned ‘a lot’ and 33% ‘a little’ about their ability to keep in touch with family and friends over the coming months, as we head into winter
• 50% of people rated their current happiness as high (ratings of 7-10 on a scale of 0-10). This is the lowest proportion since the survey began
• 19% of people said that they had ‘often’ or ‘always’ felt isolated in the last 7 days, and 13% that they had ‘often’ or ‘always’ felt lonely

The latest Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) public engagement survey report from Public Health Wales covers the period of 2 - 8 November, when 602 people were surveyed.

Every two weeks, Public Health Wales conducts interviews with hundreds of people aged 18 or over across Wales, to understand how Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the measures being used to prevent its spread are affecting the physical, mental and social wellbeing of people in Wales.

The survey is part of a raft of measures implemented by Public Health Wales to support public health and wellbeing through Coronavirus.

The full report is available to download here.