Table 3.
Associations between active jobs (high job demands/high job control), passive jobs (low job control/low job demands), high strain (high job demands/low control) and troublesome neck, shoulder and/or arm pain, stratified for no sleep disturbances/sleep disturbances (mild/severe), presented as crude and adjusted ORs and 95% CIs
| No sleep disturbances |
Sleep disturbances |
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| Exposure | Number of experienced cases (total) | Crude OR (95% CI) |
Adjusted* OR (95% CI) |
p Value | Number of experienced cases (total) | Crude OR (95% CI) |
Adjusted* OR (95% CI) |
p Value |
| Low strain (reference) | 808 (3890) | 1 | 1 | 411 (1468) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Active jobs | 129 (597) | 1.0 (0.8 to 1.3) | 1.1 (0.9 to 1.4) | ns | 128 (396) | 1.2 (1.0 to 1.6) | 1.3 (1.0 to 1.7) | 0.02 |
| Passive jobs | 83 (336) | 1.3 (1.0 to 1.7) | 1.2 (0.9 to 1.6) | ns | 62 (192) | 1.3 (0.9 to 1.8) | 1.0 (0.7 to 1.5) | ns |
| High strain | 15 (54) | 1.4 (0.8 to 2.6) | 1.2 (0.6 to 2.1) | ns | 23 (46) | 2.6 (1.4 to 4.6) | 1.8 (1.0 to 3.5) | ns |
*Adjusted for economic stress.
ns, non-significant.