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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Nurs Rev. 2011 Dec 7;59(2):237–244. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2011.00948.x

Table 2.

Log-binomial regression models predicting the relative risk of job strain (high demands and low control) among direct care workers, for whole population and stratified by occupational category1.

All direct care workers (n=237) RN/LPN (n=82) CNA (n=155)

Relative
Risk
95% CI P Relative
Risk
95% CI P Relative
Risk
95% CI P

Non-Hispanic Black
[ref: non-Hispanic White]
2.9 1.3 – 6.6 0.0097 3.2 0.4 – 23.0 0.2498 3.1 1.0 – 9.4 0.0461
Creole
[ref: English] 2
1.9 0.9 – 3.9 0.0724 . . . 1.8 0.9 – 3.7 0.117
More than high school education
[ref: high school] 2
1.1 0.6 – 2.1 0.7212 . . . 1.1 0.6 -2.2 0.6042
CNA
[ref: RN/LPN]
2.4 0.4 – 12.7 0.3158 . . . . . .
Total work time per week
(in hours)
1.0 1.0 – 1.0 0.5654 0.9 0.9 - 1.1 0.5027 1.0 0.9 - 1.0 0.4404
Job Duration
(in months)
1.0 1.0- 1.0 0.1758 0.9 0.9 - 1.1 0.8636 1.0 0.9 - 1.0 0.496
Hourly Salary
(in dollars)
0.9 0.8 – 1.0 0.0517 0.9 0.7 - 1.1 0.2607 0.8 0.6 – 1.0 0.08
1

All analyses adjusted for age, sex, marital status and site (n=4).

2

No higher skilled workers (RN/LPN) completed the survey in Haitian-Creole or had educational attainment lower than high school