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A total of 749 forms were collected. 678 were complete and were used for analysis. The response rate was 90.5%. The largest number of respondents were from the USA (n = 210), followed by Pakistan, Canada and the UK respectively. The USA on average showed fewer symptoms of depression and stress relative to Canada and Pakistan. ‘Others’ includes samples from the Middle East (Oman, Lebanon, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia), Europe (Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Turkey, Norway, Romania, Spain, Netherlands, Greece), Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Australia (Fig. 1).

Amongst this, 24.5% of participants had moderate anxiety, 10.2% suffered from extremely severe anxiety, 9.3% had mild anxiety, and 6.9% had severe anxiety. 49.1% had no characteristics of anxiety and were considered normal, as shown in Fig. 2a.

57.4% had signs of stress, including 32.2% experiencing mild stress, 17%, moderate stress, 6.6%, severe stress, and 1.6% enduring extremely severe stress. 42.6% had no signs of stress and were considered normal, as shown in Fig. 2b. 58.6% of participants showed indications of depression, with 20.1% experiencing moderate depression, 16.1%, mild depression, 11.7%, extremely severe depression, and 10.8%, severe depression. 41.4% were normal and had no features of depression, as represented in Fig. 2c. 

I gathered these result figures to show how widespread depression is and to further define the why the depression rates exist.  

Reference: 

Shah, S.M.A., Mohammad, D., Qureshi, M.F.H. et al. Prevalence, Psychological Responses and Associated Correlates of Depression, Anxiety and Stress in a Global Population, During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic. Community Ment Health J 57, 101–110 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00728-y