Disturbing ZUS data. The number of disorders increased rapidly

According to recent ZUS data, over 1.6 million sick leave for mental disorders and behavioral disorders were issued throughout the country in 2024. As Sebastian Szczurek, ZUS regional spokesperson in Opole, informed PAP, at 13.8 percent. more than in 2023.

In 2024, doctors issued 13.8 percent for mental disorders and behavioral disorders in the whole country. There were almost 1.6 million such certificates than in 2023. Last year. The total time spent dismissed by Poles is over 30.3 million days and it was 16.2 percent. More days compared to absence in 2023.

As the Opole ZUS spokesman pointed out, the category of mental disorders and behavioral disorders includes almost a hundred different disease entities, including depression, schizophrenia, neurosis, personality disorders or reaction to severe stress. Other frequent reasons for judgments about temporary incapacity for work are mental illness and behavioral disorders caused by abuse of psychoactive substances.

Over the past year, the most, 149.6 thousand ZUS registered certificates from the category of mental disorders in October, and they constituted 9.3 percent of all certificates. ZUS registered the least e-release in this respect in February 2024, i.e. 123.8 thous. On the national scale, medical certificates for mental disorders and behavioral disorders were much more often issued to women – 61.8 percent. And it was a slightly lower percentage than in 2023, when it was at 62.1 percent. The highest percentage – 30.2 percent The number of days of sickness absence was recorded in the age group between 30 and 39 years old. In the population of women in this group he amounted to 30.8 percent, while among men 29.2 percent

As Sebastian Szczurek said, the number of medical certificates issued for mental disorders and behavioral disorders is also growing in the Opolskie Voivodeship.

“In 2024, doctors issued the inhabitants of the Opolskie Voivodeship almost 28.3 thousand medical certificates for mental disorders and behavioral disorders. A year earlier there were less than 25,000, and in 2019 only 19.5 thousand. For several years, a growing trend in sick leave has been noticeable for several years, whose source is the source of mental disorders and behavioral disorders. At the same time, Opole was the province, where in the past year the doctor was They wrote the least of this kind of certificates, “said ZUS spokesman for Opole.

The result of a higher number of this type of sick leave than in previous years is more “on sick leave”.

“In 2024, the inhabitants of the Opolskie Voivodeship spent up to 519.4 thousand days on such exemptions. In 2023 it was 442 thousand days of absence. Last year in the Opolskie Voivodeship the most medical certificates due to diseases that make up mental demolition and behavioral disorders. (In 2023, the most in October, March and November – 2,300, 2252 and 2243, respectively), “calculated Szczurek.

In Poland, medical certificates for mental disorders and behavioral disorders were most often issued in connection with: – reaction to severe stress and adaptive disorders – 35.3 percent. certificates for mental disorders (in 2023 it was 33.9 percent), a depressive episode – 17.6 percent. (in 2023 – 17.9 percent), recurrent depressive disorders – 8.5 percent (in 2023 – 8.7 percent), other anxiety disorders – 18.1 percent (in 2023 – 17.5 percent), mental disorders and behavioral disorders caused by the use of alcohol – 4.5 percent (in 2023 – 5 percent).

In addition to disease entities associated with mental disorders and behavioral disorders (F00-F99), the disease-related absence associated with psychosomatic diseases was influenced by the disease entity “malaise, fatigue”. (PAP).

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