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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 – More than one in two Malaysian respondents said in a survey that they were less active amid movement control measures taken here and regionally to contain the spread of Covid-19
In a survey by market research firm Ipsos Malaysia, 56 percent of Malaysian respondents were found to have engaged in less physical activity while staying at home more, which was higher than in neighboring countries.
In the September 18-22 survey of 3,000 adults aged 18 or older in six countries or 500 respondents per country, they were asked: “Since the beginning of the Covid crisis, how does it feel to stay longer? at home has your physical activity affected? level? “
Of the 500 respondents from Malaysia, nine percent said they did not engage in any physical activity, while 47 percent said they did less physical activity than usual, 28 percent said there was no change, and 16 percent said that he did more physical activity than usual.
In terms of doing less or no physical activity while staying at home, Malaysia was the worst performing country, with 56 percent of respondents in these two categories, compared to 55 percent in Singapore and 53 percent. cent from the Philippines. Thailand with 47 percent, Vietnam and Indonesia with 43 percent.
For respondents who became more physically active than usual, Singapore’s 15 percent was comparable to Malaysia’s 16 percent, with the two lagging behind their counterparts Thailand (20 percent), Vietnam (21 percent) , Indonesia (22 percent) and the Philippines (23 percent).
In the same September survey, more Malaysian respondents appeared to have outperformed their regional peers in terms of mental well-being when they spent more time stuck at home.
When asked the question “Since the beginning of the Covid crisis, how do you feel that staying at home more has affected your mental well-being?” Only 44 percent of Malaysian respondents said they were negatively affected, it is that is, 37 percent said they felt depressed “some of the time,” while seven percent said they felt depressed “all the time.”
As for the rest of the Malaysian respondents, 47 percent said there was no change in their mental well-being, while nine percent said they were happier than before.
In terms of the percentage of people emotionally negatively affected or depressed, Malaysians had the lowest overall percentage at 44%, compared with 50% in Indonesia, 54% in Vietnam, 56% in Thailand, 57% in Singapore and the Philippines. «62 percent.
Of the six nations, Thailand stood out as having the highest percentage of respondents reporting that they were happier than before at 17 percent, compared to nine percent (Malaysia, Philippines), eight percent (Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore).
A previous Ipsos survey conducted from July 24 to August 7 of 19,516 adults in 27 countries, including 500 respondents in Malaysia, found that health and physical well-being are a “key source of happiness in life” for adults. Malaysians, the research firm said.
In the survey, 55 percent of the 500 Malaysian respondents said that health and fitness would bring the “greatest happiness” in their life, matching the global average of 55 percent.
Amid a selected group of nine countries whose results were provided by Ipsos, Malaysia lagged behind Peru and India, where 77% and 57% cite health and physical well-being as a key source of happiness, but seemed to value those factors more than those surveyed in the US and Australia with 43%, the UK and China with 41%, Japan (39%) and Korea (37%).
