Table 2.
Incidence of neck pain and adjusted odds ratio (ORadj) with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) with respect to factors in the final modeling (n = 524)
| Factors | N | Incidence n (%) |
ORadj | 95%CI | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elbows positioned at 90° angle | |||||
| - Yes | 132 | 49 (37.1) | 1.00 | ||
| - No | 392 | 190 (48.5) | 1.52 | 0.99-2.31 | 0.052 |
| Computer screen is positioned at a level horizontal with the eyes | |||||
| - Yes | 221 | 85 (38.5) | 1.00 | ||
| - No | 303 | 154 (50.8) | 1.64 | 1.13-2.36 | 0.008* |
| Mouse height | |||||
| - Suitable | 382 | 172 (45) | 1.00 | ||
| - Too high | 93 | 50 (53.8) | 1.30 | 0.82-2.10 | 0.272 |
| - Too low | 49 | 17 (34.7) | 0.52 | 0.28-0.99 | 0.045* |
| Percent duration of mouse use during desktop | |||||
| - < 70 | 427 | 201 (47.1) | 1.00 | ||
| - ≥ 70 | 97 | 38 (39.2) | 0.66 | 0.42-1.04 | 0.075 |
Significance and ORadj with 95%CI from the multivariate analysis
*P ≤ 0.05