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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - According to an evaluation by the health insurance company DAK-Gesundheit in 2020, employees in Brandenburg were absent due to mental illnesses.
With around 306 absent days per 100 employed DAK insured persons, a high has been reached since 2010, according to the Psychreport 2021 of the health insurance fund.
In the national average, according to the information, it was significantly fewer with around 265 days of absence.
Women were affected twice as often as their male colleagues.
Unlike before, the areas of education, culture and media as well as health care recorded the greatest growth.
Before that, it was public administration.
“In the health care system, people are extremely stressed.
At the same time, the education sector and the cultural sector suffer - that has to do with the psychological substance, ”says DAK regional director Anke Grubitz.
As in 2019, depression caused the highest loss of work, according to the report.
Accordingly, adjustment disorders were the second most frequently diagnosed.
This includes negative changes in the state of mind or disturbances in social behavior as a result of a stressful life event.
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The number of days absent due to mental illness has been increasing for years.
According to the cash register, this is not as pronounced in any other area as in mental ailments.
Within ten years, the number of days lost due to the psyche has risen by 82 percent.
All other diseases recorded a comparatively small increase of nine percent during this period.
According to the DAK, longer absenteeism is also a trend.
The calculation is consistent with the figures from the KKH health insurance companies.
They had also reported longer absenteeism due to mental illness in 2020.
According to the DAK, the report included data from 110,000 insured employees in Brandenburg and absenteeism due to a certificate of incapacity for work.
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