Table 3.
Prevalence (%) of overweight/obesity and regular physical activity by sociodemographics and occupational factors among California nurses (N = 394).a
| Overweight/obesity (BMI ≥25 kg/m ) |
Regular aerobic physical activity (≥150 min/week) |
Regular muscle strengthening physical activity (≥2 days/week) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%)* | p | n (%)* | p | n (%)* | p | |
| Total | 188 (48.7) | 161 (41.3) | 218 (56.6) | |||
| Age (years) | .014 | .818 | .084 | |||
| <30 | 9 (31.0) | 12 (41.4) | 19 (65.5) | |||
| 30–39 | 31 (40.8) | 28 (36.4) | 50 (64.9) | |||
| 40–49 | 34 (48.6) | 29 (42.6) | 43 (62.3) | |||
| 50–59 | 66 (47.8) | 62 (44.6) | 74 (54.0) | |||
| ≥60 | 44 (64.7) | 28 (39.4) | 30 (44.8) | |||
| Gender | .006 | .945 | .365 | |||
| Men | 26 (70.3) | 15 (41.7) | 23 (63.9) | |||
| Women | 162 (46.4) | 145 (41.1) | 195 (56.0) | |||
| Race/ethnicity | .001 | .223 | .865 | |||
| Hispanic | 15 (53.6) | 11 (39.3) | 17 (60.7) | |||
| White, Non-Hispanic | 127 (53.8) | 105 (43.8) | 135 (57.2) | |||
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 26 (29.9) | 28 (32.2) | 45 (52.9) | |||
| Otherb | 20 (57.1) | 17 (48.6) | 21 (58.3) | |||
| Education | .006 | .388 | .923 | |||
| Diploma or associate | 77 (58.8) | 51 (37.8) | 75 (56.8) | |||
| Bachelor | 72 (40.4) | 80 (45.2) | 101 (57.4) | |||
| Master or doctoral | 37 (49.3) | 30 (39.5) | 41 (54.7) | |||
| Musculoskeletal symptoms c | .299 | .090 | .471 | |||
| Yes | 156 (49.8) | 124 (39.1) | 173 (55.6) | |||
| No | 31 (43.1) | 36 (50.0) | 44 (60.3) | |||
| Type of workplace | .880 | .438 | .669 | |||
| Hospital | 126 (48.1) | 101 (38.5) | 145 (55.8) | |||
| Ambulatory/outpatient clinic | 27 (54.0) | 23 (44.2) | 30 (57.7) | |||
| Long term care/home health agency/hospice |
13 (46.4) | 14 (48.3) | 13 (50.0) | |||
| Other | 22 (47.8) | 23 (48.9) | 30 (63.8) | |||
| Type of work setting | .811 | .930 | .530 | |||
| Rural | 25 (50.0) | 19 (38.8) | 29 (60.4) | |||
| Suburban | 63 (50.8) | 52 (41.9) | 64 (52.0) | |||
| Urban | 83 (47.2) | 74 (40.9) | 103 (57.2) | |||
| Job title | .106 | .265 | .281 | |||
| Staff nurse | 89 (44.3) | 74 (36.6) | 115 (56.9) | |||
| Charge nurse | 19 (50.0) | 18 (45.0) | 22 (59.5) | |||
| Nurse Manager/supervisor | 25 (65.8) | 19 (47.5) | 16 (42.1) | |||
| Other | 54 (50.0) | 50 (46.7) | 64 (59.8) | |||
| Work status | .015 | .210 | .293 | |||
| Full-time | 138 (52.1) | 104 (38.7) | 147 (55.3) | |||
| Part-time/Per-diem | 37 (37.8) | 45 (45.9) | 59 (61.5) | |||
| Work hours per shift | ||||||
| <12 h | 104 (51.5) | .135 | 89 (43.2) | .190 | 115 (56.9) | .934 |
| ≥12 h | 67 (43.5) | 56 (36.4) | 87 (56.5) | |||
| Work hours per week | <.001 | .895 | .160 | |||
| <40 h | 77 (39.9) | 78 (39.8) | 104 (53.3) | |||
| ≥40 h | 99 (58.9) | 68 (40.5) | 100 (60.6) | |||
| Shift | ||||||
| Day shift | 120 (47.6) | .675 | 108 (42.4) | .274 | 150 (59.5) | .108 |
| Non-day shift d | 56 (50.0) | 41 (36.3) | 56 (50.5) | |||
| Physical workload index | .055 | .531 | .229 | |||
| Low | 95 (54.6) | 70 (39.1) | 93 (53.8) | |||
| High | 79 (44.4) | 75 (42.4) | 107 (60.1) | |||
| Job demand | .282 | .003 | .247 | |||
| Low | 107 (51.2) | 77 (36.5) | 112 (54.1) | |||
| High | 79 (45.7) | 83 (47.4) | 105 (60.0) | |||
| Job control | .252 | .195 | .293 | |||
| Low | 84 (45.7) | 70 (38.0) | 100 (54.1) | |||
| High | 102 (51.5) | 90 (44.6) | 117 (59.4) | |||
| Job straine | .303 | .033 | .284 | |||
| Low strain | 62 (56.4) | 48 (42.9) | 64 (59.3) | |||
| Passive job | 45 (45.5) | 29 (29.3) | 48 (48.5) | |||
| Active job | 40 (45.5) | 42 (46.7) | 53 (59.6) | |||
| High strain | 39 (45.9) | 41 (48.2) | 52 (60.5) | |||
| Job satisfaction | .671 | .433 | .165 | |||
| Not at all or not too satisfied | 15 (41.7) | 12 (33.3) | 17 (47.2) | |||
| Somewhat satisfied | 86 (49.7) | 72 (40.7) | 96 (54.2) | |||
| Very satisfied | 85 (49.1) | 77 (44.5) | 104 (61.9) | |||
BMI (body mass index).
*
Row percentages by each category.
a
Due to missing data, the sample size was 386 for BMI, 390 for aerobic physical activity, and 385 for muscle strengthening physical activity.
b
Other: African-American, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Other.
c
Any symptom in the low back, neck, shoulders, hands or wrists in the past 12 months.
d
Non-day shift: evening, night or rotating shift.
e
Low strain (low demand and high control); passive job (low demand and low control); active job (high demand and high control); high strain job (high demand and low control).