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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Med. 2012 Jul;54(7):851–858. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31824e6913

Table 1.

Frequency (and percent) or mean (± standard deviation) of respondent characteristics by presence or absence of deficiency within each of the three sleep variables, duration, quality, and insomnia symptoms, with p-value for test of no association with the sleep variables. Significant p-values are bolded. Variables significant across all three sleep variables are also bolded and include any pain, work interference, functional limitation, and psychological distress.

Sleep Duration Sleep Sufficiency Insomnia Symptoms

<6 hrs/night
(N=354)
≥ 6hrs/night(N=1115) p Never/Rarely
(N=428)
Sometimes/Often/
Always(N=1075)
p ≥ 3times/wk
(N=631)
<3 times/wk
(N=872)
p
Any Pain No 73 (20.6%) 312 (28.0%) 0.006 87 (20.3%) 306 (28.5%) 0.001 130 (20.6%) 268 (30.7%) < 0.0001
Yes 281 (79.4%) 803 (72.0%) 341 (79.7%) 769 (71.5%) 501 (79.4%) 604 (69.3%)

Work Interference No 206 (58.7%) 781 (70.3%) < 0.0001 238 (55.9%) 769 (71.9%) < 0.0001 380 (60.2%) 632 (73.1%) < 0.0001
Yes 145 (41.3%) 330 (29.7%) 188 (44.1%) 301 (28.1%) 251 (39.8%) 233 (26.9%)

Functional Limitation No 271 (76.6%) 945 (84.8%) < 0.001 334 (78.0%) 904 (84.1%) 0.005 482 (76.4%) 762 (87.4%) < 0.0001
Yes 83 (23.4%) 170 (15.2%) 94 (22.0%) 171 (15.9%) 149 (23.6%) 110 (12.6%)

Race Hispanic 13 (3.7%) 49 (4.5%) 0.001 20 (4.8%) 43 (4.1%) 0.912 18 (2.9%) 45 (5.3%) 0.001
White 261 (74.4%) 905 (82.3%) 330 (78.8%) 845 (79.7%) 528 (84.6%) 650 (75.9%)
Black 50 (14.2%) 92 (8.4%) 45 (10.7%) 108 (10.2%) 48 (7.7%) 103 (12.0%)
Mixed Race/Other 27 (7.7%) 54 (4.9%) 24 (5.7%) 64 (6.0%) 30 (4.8%) 58 (6.8%)

Sex Male 29 (8.2%) 108 (9.8%) 0.393 41 (9.8%) 99 (9.3%) 0.770 60 (9.6%) 81 (9.4%) 0.916
Female 323 (91.8%) 998 (90.2%) 379 (90.2%) 969 (90.7%) 567 (90.4%) 780 (90.6%)

Age (years) 42.3 (± 11.45) 40.9 (± 11.77) 0.056 39.6 (± 10.88) 42.0 (± 11.93) < 0.001 42.9 (± 11.56) 40.1 (± 11.60) < 0.0001

BMI (kg/m2) 27.3 (± 5.84) 26.0 (± 5.04) < 0.001 26.4 (± 5.45) 26.3 (± 5.22) 0.765 26.5 (± 5.37) 26.1 (± 5.22) 0.154

Psychological Distress 3.2 (± 3.68) 2.3 (± 3.21) < 0.001 3.7 (± 4.11) 2.1 (± 2.83) < 0.0001 3.1 (± 3.69) 2.2 (± 3.02) < 0.0001

Unit Category ER 25 (7.1%) 56 (5.0%) 0.485 26 (6.1%) 59 (5.5%) 0.822 32 (5.1%) 51 (5.8%) 0.017
OR 37 (10.5%) 109 (9.8%) 44 (10.3%) 107 (10.0%) 66 (10.5%) 84 (9.6%)
Adult Med/Surg 122 (34.5%) 378 (33.9%) 142 (33.2%) 373 (34.7%) 201 (31.9%) 315 (36.1%)
Adult ICU 48 (13.6%) 136 (12.2%) 52 (12.1%) 138 (12.8%) 87 (13.8%) 101 (11.6%)
Stepdown 18 (5.1%) 59 (5.3%) 25 (5.8%) 55 (5.1%) 27 (4.3%) 54 (6.2%)
Ped Med/Surg 4 (1.1%) 16 (1.4%) 7 (1.6%) 13 (1.2%) 6 (1.0%) 14 (1.6%)
Ped ICU/NICU 17 (4.8%) 45 (4.0%) 21 (4.9%) 40 (3.7%) 33 (5.2%) 30 (3.4%)
Psychiatry 0 (0.0%) 19 (1.7%) 3 (0.7%) 17 (1.6%) 7 (1.1%) 13 (1.5%)
OB-Postpartum 28 (7.9%) 98 (8.8%) 39 (9.1%) 86 (8.0%) 55 (8.7%) 71 (8.1%)
Float Pool 12 (3.4%) 50 (4.5%) 16 (3.7%) 48 (4.5%) 30 (4.8%) 34 (3.9%)
Amb only/Consult/Educ 35 (9.9%) 120 (10.8%) 46 (10.7%) 109 (10.1%) 79 (12.5%) 76 (8.7%)
Orthopedics 8 (2.3%) 29 (2.6%) 7 (1.6%) 30 (2.8%) 8 (1.3%) 29 (3.3%)

Hours Worked 30 hours 60 (17.0%) 277 (24.9%) 0.004 95 (22.4%) 241 (22.5%) 0.178 137 (21.8%) 200 (23.0%) 0.229
30-34 hours 41 (11.6%) 138 (12.4%) 60 (14.1%) 120 (11.2%) 84 (13.4%) 97 (11.2%)
35-39 hours 98 (27.8%) 324 (29.2%) 117 (27.5%) 315 (29.4%) 185 (29.4%) 247 (28.5%)
40-44 hours 137 (38.8%) 328 (29.5%) 128 (30.1%) 355 (33.1%) 190 (30.2%) 293 (33.8%)
>44 hours 17 (4.8%) 44 (4.0%) 25 (5.9%) 41 (3.8%) 33 (5.2%) 31 (3.6%)

Occupation Staff Nurse 238 (67.4%) 812 (73.2%) 0.074 291 (68.5%) 768 (71.6%) 0.375 447 (71.1%) 612 (70.5%) 0.024
Patient Care Associate 31 (8.8%) 68 (6.1%) 32 (7.5%) 82 (7.6%) 35 (5.6%) 79 (9.1%)
Other 84 (23.8%) 230 (20.7%) 102 (24.0%) 222 (20.7%) 147 (23.4%) 177 (20.4%)

Nightwork 0-6 hrs/month 188 (53.1%) 651 (58.4%) 0.167 228 (53.3%) 629 (58.5%) 0.175 379 (60.1%) 479 (54.9%) 0.085
6-72 hrs/month 99 (28.0%) 291 (26.1%) 121 (28.3%) 274 (25.5%) 160 (25.4%) 234 (26.8%)
>72 hrs/month 67 (18.9%) 173 (15.5%) 79 (18.5%) 172 (16.0%) 92 (14.6%) 159 (18.2%)

Coworker Support 7.8 (± 1.51) 8.1 (± 1.45) 0.008 7.8 (± 1.59) 8.1 (± 1.45) 0.007 8.0 (± 1.45) 8.0 (± 1.52) 0.552

Supervisor Support 10.5 (± 2.96) 10.7 (± 2.96) 0.228 10.0 (± 3.17) 10.9 (± 2.88) < 0.0001 10.6 (± 2.93) 10.7 (± 3.02) 0.444

Job Demands 36.4 (± 5.12) 35.8 (± 5.13) 0.080 36.8 (± 5.24) 35.6 (± 5.14) < 0.0001 36.3 (± 5.29) 35.6 (± 5.08) 0.006