Psychiatrists′ work with sickness certification: frequency, experiences and severity of the certification tasks in a national survey in Sweden

Table 1 Study population, response rate, number under 65 years of age mainly working in psychiatric health care, and frequency of sickness-certification cases, respectively

	Responding psychiatrists	<65 years of age, and working in psychiatric health care		Frequency of consultations involving consideration of sickness certification among the responding psychiatrists working in psychiatric health care *								Is inpatient care part of your daily work?
	Responding psychiatrists	<65 years of age, and working in psychiatric health care		At least 6 times per week		1-5 times per week		A few times per month or year		Never or almost never		Yes		No
	N	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
All	1185	723	61.0	393	55.0	186	26.0	68	9.5	68	9.5	284	43.2	374	56.8
Women	599	383	63.9	206	54.4	99	26.1	41	10.8	33	8.7	143	40.6	209	59.4
Men	586	340	58.0	187	55.7	87	25.9	27	8.0	35	10.4	141	46.1	165	53.9
31-54 years	464	336	72.4	202	60.5	76	22.8	35	10.5	21	6.3	170	53.8	146	46.2
55-64 years	518	387	74.7	191	50.1	110	28.9	33	8.7	47	12.3	114	33.3	228	66.7
> 65 years	203	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

The study group consisted of the 579 psychiatrists who had such consultations at least once a week (bold figures).
*Missing 8 (1.1%).