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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Most of the failures due to mental illnesses in Baden-Württemberg continue to be found among health care workers - at least among those insured by the DAK.
For its current “Psychreport”, the health insurance company had data from more than 280,000 of its members in the south-west analyzed.
According to this, for every 100 employees in the health care system last year there were around 295 days of absence due to depression and similar illnesses - more than in any other industry and significantly more than the average.
It was 201 days per 100 insured persons and has thus decreased slightly against the national trend.
Each case of illness lasted an average of 36 days, two and a half more than in 2019.
"The current analysis shows how people with mental health problems in particular suffer from the stresses and limitations of the pandemic," said the head of the DAK-Gesundheit in Baden-Württemberg, Siegfried Euerle.
"It is obvious that the health system is stretched to the limit."
Even before Corona, there had been most days of absence there due to mental illness.
The second most affected were - again - those insured by the DAK in public administration.
There were considerable differences between men and women.
While every 100 female insured persons had an average of 244 days of absence, the figure was only 165 for men. The most common reason for days of absence was depression.
So-called adjustment disorders would have become noticeably more important under pandemic conditions.
This is the name given to reactions to a stressful event, for example a death.
Around 650,000 people are insured with DAK in the south-west.
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