Table 2.
OHWC descriptive statistics for health, safety, well-being, and health behaviors.
| Call center workers | Correction officers | Constructions workers | Homecare workers | Parks and recreation workers | Combined sample | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Safety | ||||||||||||
| Work injury that required lost work days | 139 | 2.9% | 79 | 5.1% | 346 | 16.2% | 147 | 4.1 | N/A | N/A | 572 | 9.9% |
| Pain that interfered with normal activities | 123 | 6.3% | 79 | 44.3% | 341 | 56.0% | 148 | 61.6% | N/A | N/A | 566 | 47.0% |
| Health | ||||||||||||
| Smoking in past week | 138 | 16.7%a | 79 | 12.7% | 348 | 20.7% | 147 | 16.3%a | 178 | 4.5% | 752 | 15.4% |
| Recommended hours sleep (teens 9+ h; adults 7+ h) | 139 | 79.3% | 77 | 56.4% | 339 | 60.2% | N/A | N/A | 178 | 46.6% | 594 | 60.1% |
| Moderate/vigorous exercise for 30 min for 5 or more days per week | 139 | 43.1% | 79 | 21.5% | 346 | 32.1% | 145 | 22.8% | 178 | 50.6%b | 748 | 35.1% |
| BMI | 138 | 83 | 335 | 148 | 178 | 744 | ||||||
| Overweight | 15.9% | 28.9% | 31.3% | 24.3% | 13.5% | 23.9% | ||||||
| Obese | 60.9% | 63.9% | 54.0% | 54.7% | 7.9% | 46.8% | ||||||
| Blood Pressure | 130 | 82 | 336 | 147 | 34.7% | N/A | N/A | 565 | ||||
| Pre-hypertension | 33.8% | 53.7% | 51.2% | 17.0% | 41.0% | |||||||
| Hypertension | 10.0% | 19.5% | 25.3% | 16.4% | ||||||||
| N | M ± SD | N | M ± SD | N | M ± SD | N | M ± SD | N | M ± SD | N | M ± SD | |
| SF-12 | ||||||||||||
| General health | N/A | N/A | 79 | 41.14 ± 10.13*** | 345 | 45.60 ± 9.70*** | 147 | 44.36 ± 10.25*** | 178 | 51.18 ± 9.00 | 749 | 46.21 ± 10.15*** |
| Physical functioning | N/A | N/A | 78 | 52.61 ± 6.44** | 343 | 53.09 ± 6.98*** | 146 | 46.35 ± 9.97*** | 178 | 53.47 ± 7.37*** | 745 | 51.81 ± 8.14*** |
| Role physical | N/A | N/A | 76 | 52.39 ± 6.75** | N/A | N/A | 145 | 46.98 ± 9.97*** | 178 | 54.33 ± 5.47*** | 399 | 51.29 ± 8.31** |
| Role emotional | N/A | N/A | 78 | 48.34 ± 9.38 | N/A | N/A | 144 | 47.81 ± 9.98** | 178 | 49.80 ± 8.87 | 400 | 48.80 ± 9.40* |
| Bodily Pain | N/A | N/A | 79 | 49.19 ± 9.80 | 348 | 46.14 ± 11.16*** | 145 | 45.92 ± 10.35*** | 178 | 53.95 ± 6.32*** | 750 | 48.27 ± 10.42*** |
| Mental health | N/A | N/A | 79 | 46.25 ± 10.33** | 344 | 47.94 ± 10.10*** | 147 | 47.54 ± 10.66** | 178 | 49.85 ± 9.20 | 748 | 48.14 ± 10.07*** |
| Vitality | N/A | N/A | 79 | 48.13 ± 9.32 | 344 | 50.15 ± 9.23 | 147 | 48.64 ± 10.79 | 178 | 52.50 ± 8.50*** | 748 | 50.20 ± 9.50 |
| Social functioning | N/A | N/A | 79 | 46.34 ± 11.49** | 344 | 49.23 ± 10.09 | 147 | 47.43 ± 10.26** | 178 | 50.61 ± 8.00 | 748 | 48.90 ± 9.90** |
N in this table represent the number of participants in each sample who answered each question. % in this table indicated the percent of participants who answered in the affirmative out of those who answered the question for each sample.
a
Homecare workers and call center workers asked about smoking in the last month.
b
Parks and recreation workers were not asked about the intensity of their exercise.
Scores for each of the sub-scales of the SF-12 were standardized using the means and SDs of the nationally representative sample and converted to t-scores to be comparable to the nationally representative sample with a mean = 50 and a SD = 10.
***
p < 0.001 and
**
p < 0.010.