Table 1.
Distribution of demographic and health-related background variables
| Day shift (n = 25) |
Night shift (n = 20) |
Swing shift (n = 16) |
F (df) | p | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | Mean | (SD) | n | % | Mean | (SD) | n | % | Mean | (SD) | |||
| Age (y) | 42.2 | (8.6) | 39.8 | (6.2) | 42.6 | (6.9) | 0.86 (2,58) | 0.428 | ||||||
| Marital status | ||||||||||||||
| Single/divorced/widowed | 3 | 12.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 6.3 | 2.62 (2) | 0.271 | ||||||
| Partner | 22 | 88.0 | 20 | 100.0 | 15 | 93.7 | ||||||||
| Children | ||||||||||||||
| 1 child age < 7 y | 14 | 56.0 | 15 | 75.0 | 9 | 56.3 | 2.05 (2) | 0.360 | ||||||
| All children age ≥ 7 y | 11 | 44.0 | 5 | 25.0 | 7 | 43.7 | ||||||||
| Education | ||||||||||||||
| Primary/secondary school | 12 | 48.0 | 16 | 80.0 | 7 | 43.7 | 6.30 (2) | 0.043 | ||||||
| College/university degree | 13 | 52.0 | 4 | 20.0 | 9 | 56.3 | ||||||||
| General health | ||||||||||||||
| Very good | 6 | 24.0 | 8 | 40.0 | 3 | 18.7 | 0.02 (1) | 0.902 | ||||||
| Good | 17 | 68.0 | 7 | 35.0 | 13 | 81.3 | ||||||||
| Neither good nor poor | 2 | 8.0 | 5 | 25.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
SD, standard deviation.