Samaritans Launches Awareness Campaign For People With Iraq War Worries

New research shows nearly two-thirds of British people who feel stressed have found the war in Iraq upsetting.

Research carried out in April by MORI on behalf of Samaritans shows that the war was one of the biggest causes of stress for nearly one in eight (12%) of those who have ever felt stressed in Great Britain. Over four-fifths (82%) of British adults say they have ever felt stressed. Furthermore, nearly two-thirds (63%) of those Britons who have felt stressed have been upset by the war in some way.

Technical details

A nationally representative quota sample of 1,885 British adults aged 15+ were interviewed throughout Great Britain on the MORI Omnibus, across 191 sampling points. Interviews were carried out using CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing), face-to-face in respondents' homes 3-8 April 2003. Data have been weighted to reflect the known national population profile.