Popular science material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences: “Psychological stressors of wartime: prevalence and effects among the population of Ukraine”

We offer you a popular science material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, "Psychological stressors of wartime: prevalence and effects among the population of Ukraine"

The results of the analysis offered here are based on data collected within the research project of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine “States of stress among the population of Ukraine in the context of the war: prevalence, risk groups and ways of compensation”. The fieldwork was carried out for the Institute by the Rating Sociological Group in October 2023.

Survey design: mixed mode, using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) to recruit respondents and Computer Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) for respondents' answers to the main block of the questionnaire. The sample used for the final analysis includes 2,767 respondents and represents residents of Ukraine aged 18 to 69 who use a smartphone (approximately 74% of Ukraine's adult population). The sample does not include Ukrainians who were outside Ukraine at the time. The margin of error at a confidence level of 0.95 and taking the design effect into account is ±2.1%. The response rate is 9.5%.

Turning to the results of the analysis proper, it should be recalled that war is above all the experience of being in a combat zone. On the eve of the full-scale invasion, about 18% of Ukraine's population aged 18 to 69 had experience of living in a combat zone. The Russian Federation's further aggression increased the number of such people to almost 44%…

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