Delhi citizens display outstanding mental well-being index and Hyderabad stands at 3rd with 82% MWBI display ‘excellent’ mental well-being position, Ahmedabad is at lowest at the end of lockdown 3.0 : TRA whitepaper.
Chandramouli, CEO, TRA Research, India’s leading consumer insights and brand analytics company said, “Delhi (NCR) citizens display an ‘Outstanding’ rating in the Mental Well-being Index, with the citizenry’s coping skills bettering their worries. Guwahati at 89% MWBI and Hyderabad at 82% MWBI both display ‘Excellent’ Mental Well-being. Indore displays an unchanged MWBI score at 76% and continues to display ‘Good’ Mental Well-being.” Ahmedabad displays the lowest Mental Well-being at 25% followed by Chennai at 28% and Kolkata, facing the dual crises of Covid-19 and Amphan is at 29% MWBI. Along with these cities, Nagpur (36%), Kochi (37%) and Coimbatore (39%) also display ‘Very Poor’ Mental Well-being, Chandramouli added.
Four cities showed improved Mental Well-being between Lockdown 1.0 and Lockdown 3.0. Delhi (NCR) was leading and the city displays Outstanding Mental Well-being at 107% with Coping higher than Worry. The city also shows the highest rise in Mental Well-being Index (rise of 44%) from Lockdown 1.0. Lucknow showed a 27% improvement in the Mental Well-being Index to now display Good on the MWBI scale. Mumbai has a rise in MWBI of 26%, though still at a Poor on the MWBI metric. Hyderabad is the only other city where Mental Well-being Index has shown a rise of 18%, rising from Good to Excellent Mental Well-being. All other cities either did not show any change in the MWBI or showed a decrease in Mental Well-being.
The City Mental Well-being heat map shows the data in a different format, clearly showing the deterioration of Mental Wellbeing in a majority of the cities with significant exceptions as stated in the above paragraph (Green indicates better MWBI, and colour changes progressively toward Red showing worse MWBI).