Table 3.
Distributions of psychosocial working conditions, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, and hypertension in (A) 295 male firefighters who worked at fire stations and were not taking anti-hypertensive medications and (B) 22 male firefighters who worked at fire station and were taking anti-hypertensive medications
| Psychosocial working condition | Subcategory | N (%) | SBP (mmHg)
|
DBP (mmHg)
|
Hypertension (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | Pairwise comparison (p value) | M (SD) | Pairwise comparison (p value) | ||||
| (A) 295 male firefighters | |||||||
| 0–6 | 11 (3.7) | 114.5 (8.6) | 0.069 | 77.0 (5.4) | 0.062 | 0.0 | |
| Number of 24-h shifts in the past month | 8–11 (reference) | 25 (8.5) | 107.1 (6.3) | Ref. | 72.0 (6.1) | Ref. | 0.0 |
| 12–21 | 259 (87.8) | 111.7 (11.7) | 0.050 | 75.8 (7.5) | 0.014 | 4.6 | |
| ANOVA test: p value | 0.095 | 0.038 | |||||
| 0–6 | 11 (3.7) | 114.5 (8.6) | 0.070 | 77.0 (5.4) | 0.060 | 0.0 | |
| 8–11 | 25 (8.5) | 107.9 (6.3) | Ref. | 72.0 (6.1) | Ref. | 0.0 | |
| 12 | 63 (21.4) | 110.9 (13.6) | 0.155 | 75.8 (8.4) | 0.029 | 4.8 | |
| 13 | 36 (12.2) | 110.8 (10.9) | 0.215 | 74.8 (8.0) | 0.150 | 5.6 | |
| 14 | 71 (24.1) | 112.8 (12.3) | 0.031 | 76.2 (7.0) | 0.015 | 5.6 | |
| 15 | 36 (12.2) | 111.4 (10.8) | 0.148 | 73.6 (6.7) | 0.398 | 2.8 | |
| 16 | 34 (11.5) | 113.5 (11.0) | 0.033 | 78.7 (8.3) | 0.001 | 5.9 | |
| 17–21 | 19 (6.4) | 110.1 (7.5) | 0.382 | 75.8 (4.3) | 0.090 | 0.0 | |
| ANOVA test: p value | 0.414 | 0.026 | |||||
| More demanding over the past years | Strongly disagree/disagree | 93 (31.5) | 109.6 (10.1) | Ref. | 74.8 (6.6) | Ref. | 4.3 |
| Agree/strongly agree | 202 (68.5) | 112.3 (11.8) | 0.059 | 75.9 (7.8) | 0.225 | 4.0 | |
| (B) 22 male firefighters | |||||||
| Number of 24-h shifts in the past month | 0–6 | 1 (4.5) | 121.0 (NA) | 0.826 | 80.0 (NA) | 0.978 | 100 |
| 8–11 (reference) | 4 (18.2) | 117.5 (7.5) | Ref. | 80.3 (12.7) | Ref. | 100 | |
| 12–21 | 17 (77.3) | 121.4 (15.0) | 0.622 | 82.1 (7.0) | 0.694 | 100 | |
| ANOVA test: p value | 0.883 | 0.905 | |||||
| More demanding over the past years | Strongly disagree/disagree | 7 (31.8) | 121.0 (8.1) | Ref. | 80.9 (8.4) | Ref. | 100 |
| Agree/strongly agree | 15 (68.2) | 120.5 (15.6) | 0.942 | 82.0 (7.8) | 0.757 | 100 | |
ANOVA analysis of variance, NA not applicable, Ref. the reference group for pairwise comparisons