Table 2.
Work related characteristics of the study subjects
| Characteristics | |
Total |
|
Male |
|
Female |
P * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | ||
| Department | |||||||
| Rooms |
196 |
(19.3) |
97 |
(15.6) |
99 |
(25.0) |
<0.001 |
| Food & Beverage |
312 |
(30.7) |
157 |
(25.4) |
155 |
(39.2) |
|
| Kitchen |
236 |
(23.2) |
201 |
(32.4) |
35 |
(8.8) |
|
| Housekeeping |
53 |
(5.2) |
25 |
(4.0) |
28 |
(7.1) |
|
| Engineering |
80 |
(7.9) |
78 |
(12.6) |
2 |
(0.5) |
|
| Back office |
139 |
(13.7) |
62 |
(10.0) |
77 |
(19.4) |
|
| Work duration (years) | |||||||
| <10 |
487 |
(48.0) |
243 |
(39.2) |
244 |
(61.6) |
<0.001 |
| 10-19 |
295 |
(29.0) |
189 |
(30.5) |
106 |
(26.8) |
|
| ≧20 |
234 |
(23.0) |
188 |
(30.3) |
46 |
(11.6) |
|
| Weekly working hours | |||||||
| <45 |
351 |
(34.5) |
227 |
(36.6) |
124 |
(31.3) |
0.083 |
| ≧45 |
665 |
(65.5) |
393 |
(63.4) |
272 |
(68.7) |
|
| Shift work | |||||||
| Yes |
587 |
(57.8) |
352 |
(56.8) |
235 |
(59.3) |
0.419 |
| No |
429 |
(42.2) |
268 |
(43.2) |
161 |
(40.7) |
|
| Overtime work | |||||||
| Yes |
514 |
(50.6) |
329 |
(53.1) |
185 |
(46.7) |
0.048 |
| No |
502 |
(49.4) |
291 |
(46.9) |
211 |
(53.3) |
|
| Work intensity | |||||||
| High |
421 |
(41.4) |
244 |
(39.4) |
177 |
(44.7) |
0.092 |
| Low |
595 |
(58.6) |
376 |
(60.6) |
219 |
(55.3) |
|
| Absence / early leaves | |||||||
| Yes |
127 |
(12.5) |
46 |
(7.4) |
81 |
(20.5) |
<0.001 |
| No |
889 |
(87.5) |
574 |
(92.6) |
315 |
(79.5) |
|
| Total | 1016 | (100.0) | 620 | (100.0) | 396 | (100.0) | |
* By chi-squared test.