Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of the female laboratory technicians included in the analysis.

Descriptive Characteristics	Mean (S.D.)
Number of included observations	473
Age, years	46.0 (9.5)
Body mass index(kg·m−2)	24.2 (3.7)
Smokers, percentage	1.9 (0.3)
Seniority, years	20.9 (10.8)
Number of working hours per week	36.9 (4.3)
Neck-shoulder pain intensity (0–10 VAS-scale)	2.6 (2.4)
The Perceived Stress Scale score (0–40)	12.3 (6.4)
Work Ability Index score (7–49)	41.8 (4.9)