Mental health of people in Wales worst affected by cost of living crisis, poll finds

Cardiff. Sixty-one per cent of Welsh adults said their financial situation was damaging their mental health. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

The cost of living crisis is damaging the mental health of nearly half of adults in Great Britain, with people in Wales the unhappiest of all, according to research.

In Wales, 61% of adults said their current financial situation was damaging their mental health, compared with 48% of people in Scotland and 47% in England, according to YouGov research for Business in the Community (BITC), the Prince’s Responsible Business network.