On March 29, Dr. Ding Xiang released the "2022 National Health Insight Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), which is also the fourth large-scale survey of national health conducted by Dr. Lilac, based on the data insights of 60420 samples in multiple dimensions such as health concepts, health behaviors, and healthy consumption habits, refining "stabilization" into the keywords of national health in 2021, and making a review and summary of the national health status in 2021.
In the "second year stolen by the epidemic", compared with the helplessness of the epidemic when the epidemic first arrived, people began to become stable from the mentality and the way of looking at health became more mature. When asked "What do you think is health?" When most people give the answer: physical and mental health. Unlike the previous two years when the public simply understood health as "mental health" and "not getting sick", in 2021, mental health and physical health have become equally important to people.
Mood, figure, and skin troubles ranked in the top three
The "Report" shows that in 2021, people have an average of 4.8 health problems, ranking in the top 3 are emotional, stature and skin problems. With the vast majority of people going out less and spending more time indoors, for the first time compared to 2021, body anxiety surpasses skin troubles. The proportion of people suffering from eye problems reached 31%, showing a year-on-year trend.
At the same time, through active search and regular viewing, more and more people are more active in absorbing health information. Survey data show that sports and fitness, dietary nutrition knowledge and common disease science are the three types of health content that the people are most concerned about, while the attention of mental health related knowledge ranks fourth.
The post-00s and post-90s are more worried about their own psychology
The intensification of psychological pressure is one of the most vivid aspects of the national health state in 2021. The "Report" pointed out that among various health problems, emotional troubles such as anxiety and depression still ranked first. The pressure of social realities such as emotions, workplaces, and families continues to stir people's tense nerves.
In this data survey, 91% of respondents said they thought they had psychological problems. Among them, anxiety and depression are the hardest hit areas of psychological problems, and 56% of people said they had worried about their sudden death. Interestingly, only 30% of them said they were diagnosed with a mental illness, and the proportion of people who were worried about having psychological problems was much higher than the proportion of actual diagnoses, further revealing the psychological pressure people will be under in 2021.
On the other hand, the younger the age of people, the higher the proportion of people who are worried about mental illness, among the many psychological problems that they think they have, the post-00s and post-90s are the top two. The proportion of people who work more than 12 hours is also higher to worry about various psychological problems, which shows that the psychological pressure brought about by high-intensity work has a greater impact on people's emotions, which is one of the important reasons for people's high "self-misjudgment".
However, although the public generally believes that they have psychological problems, people do not choose to "lie flat" when faced with their own emotional problems. The report notes that 74 percent of people are taking positive action to cope with and address psychological distress, mostly through self-regulation, such as sleeping, exercising, and seeking comfort from friends and family.
At the same time, as professional psychological services have become more widely popularized and recognized in China, more people have begun to seek help from professional institutions. Nearly 70% of people have experienced psychological tests, psychological counseling, psychological courses and other products or services, which all reflect people's positive and healthy attitudes when facing problems.
In this regard, Ye Zhuang, deputy secretary-general of the Science Popularization Committee of the Beijing Social Psychology Federation, said that in the past year, due to the impact of practical challenges and their own situation, the psychological state of the public will naturally be contained by many hardships.
"But our psychology at this time will naturally activate a 'switch', open a mechanism in our hearts called 'better than average', to make positive self-adjustment, to rationalize the inner feelings, that is, to produce the mentality: 'Although I am very sad, I have gotten better than many people, so it seems that it is actually OK.'" In essence, it is our own psychology that has also chosen to help us 'stabilize' through the transformation of a way of thinking. ”
More than half of the people have good eating habits
The "Report" shows that in the early days of the epidemic, people used their own cooking instead of ordering takeaway and eating out, forming a wave of "do-it-yourself, abundant food and clothing". In 2021, the public has gradually extended many good eating habits such as "not drinking milk tea", "quit drinking", "eating lightly", "seven dishes and three points of meat", and more than half of people said that their eating habits have become better in the survey.
When it comes to skin, 78% of people focus on basic skincare habits such as cleansing and moisturizing. In addition, the use of functional skin care products began to be younger, 33% of the post-00s and 37% of the post-95s began to use functional skincare products, the rise of domestic products and the penetration of multiple channels such as live advertising has given young people more opportunities to contact and buy functional skin care products. At the same time, more and more men began to fully skin care, 66% of men think that skin health is very important, nearly 70% of men will match different skin care products for skin care, in addition to basic skin care, but also began to essence, eye cream, BB cream and other skin care products to advance. However, the data shows that 20% of men still "blindly buy" skin care products.
People's willingness to move has also gradually strengthened in the past year. Compared to 2020, people's sports health self-scores have increased, and 74% of people have maintained exercise habits. In addition, people's exercise methods are more abundant, in addition to walking and running two types of activities are still the most popular, rock climbing, skateboarding and other niche sports are gradually being paid more attention to.
[Reporter] Yan Huifang
【Author】 Yan Huifang
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