Table 1.
Sample characteristics for men and women with arthritis (n = 463).
| Men (n = 197) | Women (n = 266) | P values | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD)% | Mean (SD) % | |||||
| Demographics | ||||||
| Age | 59.0 (5.0) | 59.0 (5.2) | 0.92 | |||
| Marital status | 0.001 | |||||
| Married/living as married | 147 (75.4) | 155 (58.5) | ||||
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 28 (14.4) | 77 (29.1) | ||||
| Never married | 20 (10.2) | 33 (12.4) | ||||
| Education | 0.53 | |||||
| Secondary or less | 34 (17.3) | 41 (15.5) | ||||
| Some post-secondary | 35 (17.9) | 58 (22.0) | ||||
| Completed post-secondary schooling | 127 (64.8) | 127 (64.8) | ||||
| Health variables | ||||||
| Pain (range 0–10) | 4.4 (2.1) | 4.5 (2.2) | 0.54 | |||
| Fatigue (range 0–32) | 11.7 (6.1) | 14.5 (7.0) | <0.001 | |||
| Health variability (range 1–5) | 2.0 (1.0) | 2.2 (1.1) | 0.03 | |||
| Work context | ||||||
| Job sector | <0.0001 | |||||
| Banking/insurance/business/technology/government | 46 (23.4) | 59 (22.4) | ||||
| Education/health/sciences/arts | 55 (27.9) | 137 (51.9) | ||||
| Construction/utilities/manufacturing/agriculture/mining/logging | 67 (34.0) | 22 (8.3) | ||||
| Sales/retail | 29 (14.7) | 46 (17.4) | ||||
| Job involves physical activity (range 1–5) | 3.1 (1.4) | 3.1 (1.3) | 0.71 | |||
| Workplace activity limitations (range 0–36) | 3.6 (4.1) | 4.9 (4.7) | 0.01 | |||
| Work schedule | 0.93 | |||||
| Regular daytime schedule | 141 (71.4) | 189 (71.1) | ||||
| Evening/irregular schedule | 56 (28.6) | 77 (28.9) | ||||
| Size of organization | 0.78 | |||||
| <100 employees | 75 (39.1) | 91 (37.8) | ||||
| Part-time work | 34 (17.7) | 86 (34.1) | 0.001 | |||
| Member of a workplace union | 66 (33.7) | 86 (32.8) | 0.85 | |||
| Job control (range: 0–36) | 18.5 (9.0) | 17.1 (9.2) | 0.10 | |||
| Job stress (range: 1–5) | 2.7 (1.1) | 3.0 (1.0) | 0.01 | |||
| Accommodations | ||||||
| Accommodation availability | 0.11 | |||||
| 0–1 accommodations available | 26 (13.3) | 24 (9.0) | ||||
| 2–4 accommodations available | 30 (15.4) | 58 (21.8) | ||||
| 5+ accommodations available | 139 (71.3) | 184 (69.2) | ||||
| Accommodations needed | 0.01 | |||||
| 0–1 accommodations needed | 79 (40.5) | 76 (28.6) | ||||
| 2–4 accommodations needed | 75 (38.5) | 98 (36.8) | ||||
| 5+ accommodations needed | 41 (21.0) | 92 (34.6) | ||||
| Accommodations used | 0.53 | |||||
| 0–1 accommodations used | 78 (39.6) | 92 (34.6) | ||||
| 2–4 accommodations used | 82 (41.6) | 121 (45.5) | ||||
| 5+ accommodations used | 37 (18.8) | 53 (19.0) | ||||
| Accommodation needs unmet/met/exceeded | 0.03 | |||||
| Accommodation needs unmet | 39 (20.0) | 73 (27.4) | ||||
| Accommodation needs met | 118 (60.5) | 162 (60.9) | ||||
| Accommodation needs exceeded | 38 (19.5) | 31 (11.7) | ||||
Sample sizes may vary because of missing observations; Differences between men and women examined with chi-square tests for categorical variables and t-tests for continuous variables.