Research Article
Health Behaviors and Overweight in Nursing Home Employees: Contribution of Workplace Stressors and Implications for Worksite Health Promotion
Table 2
Self-reported working conditions and personal factors, by age group: 1,506 U.S. nursing home employees.
| | Younger than 40 years
| 40 years and older
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| Physical requirements at work | | | Heavy lifting (%) | 61 | 51 | Rapid and continuous physical activity (%) | 82 | 70 | Awkward working postures (%) | 74 | 59 | Physically demanding work (%) | 59 | 43 | Work organization | | | Low decision latitude (%) | 26 | 26 | High psychological demands (%) | 92 | 87 | Job strain (high demand, low control) (%) | 23 | 23 | Low schedule control (%) | 23 | 17 | Working at night (%) | 22 | 23 | Social support at work | | | Low coworker support (%) | 34 | 31 | Low supervisor support (%) | 22 | 20 | Safety and work climate | | | One or more assaults at work in the past 3 months (%) | 48 | 38 | Poor safety environment (%) | 63 | 54 | Employer tolerates discrimination (%) | 19 | 18 | Work-family balance and second jobs | | | Imbalance between work and family life (%) | 49 | 41 | Low employer support for family or other personal responsibilities (%) | 45 | 43 | Having another paid job (%) | 22 | 19 | Health behaviors and obesity | | | Current smoker (%) | 24 | 26 | Physically inactive (%) | 23 | 23 | Obese (BMI > 30) (%) | 30 | 38 |
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Number of respondents varied slightly among rows due to missing values.
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