This is how Yorkshire Evening Post readers say the lockdown has affected their lives - and their biggest concerns

Our lockdown survey, published across this title and 150 others across the UK last week, offers an insight into how the coronavirus crisis and lockdown has impacted people in Leeds and their concerns for the future.

In total we asked readers 25 questions on their attitude towards the lockdown.

Of these questions three focused on how the lockdown has affected mental health, relationships and concerns for the future - and today we can reveal how people in Leeds answered.

The majority of Yorkshire Evening Post readers who completed our survey said they felt personally most concerned about the health and wellbeing of family and friends.

By comparison, on a national level, 53 per cent answered that they were most concerned about the ‘health and wellbeing of family and friends’, 17 per cent said their ‘own health and wellbeing’, 8.6 per cent ‘security of employment/ work’, 8.5 per cent ‘impact on your children’s education’ and 6.7 per cent ‘your own/ household finances’.

Of those who took part in the survey, Yorkshire Evening Post readers said 54% had suffered mental health effects due to lockdown.

Nationally, 40 per cent answered that their mental health was ‘slightly affected’, 12 per cent ‘severely affected’, 23 per cent ‘not much affected’ and 22 per cent ‘not at all affected’.

When asked about the effects the lockdown has had on their relationship with a live-in partner or spouse, the majority of Yorkshire Evening post readers who took part in the survey responded it has not changed the relationship.

The national average of answers on this subject was: 43 per cent ‘it has not changed the relationship’, 12 per cent ‘it has brought us slightly closer together’, 10.5 per cent ‘it has brought us much closer together, 4.9 per cent ‘it has pulled us apart slightly’, 1.6 per cent ‘it has pulled us apart a lot’ while 25.7 per cent answered that they do not live with a partner or spouse.

During the course of this week we will be publishing more results of what local people had to say in our lockdown survey.