Table 4 Associations with multi-site pain (≥2 anatomical sites)
From: Risk factors for musculoskeletal pain amongst nurses in Estonia: a cross-sectional study
Risk factor | Multi-site pain in past year | Multi-site pain in past month | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | aOR (95% CI) | bOR (95% CI) | n | aOR (95% CI) | bOR (95% CI) | |
Age groups | ||||||
23–29 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 |
30–39 | 42 | 1.2 (0.5-2.5) | 1.3 (0.6-2.8) | 27 | 1.4 (0.6-3.0) | 1.3 (0.6-3.0) |
40–49 | 34 | 2.0 (0.8-4.4) | 1.9 (0.8-4.8) | 24 | 2.3 (1.0-5.2) | 2.2 (0.9-5.4) |
50–59 | 32 | 4.2 (1.7-11.3) | 6.3 (2.1-22.7) | 23 | 3.6 (1.5-8.6) | 3.7 (1.4-9.9) |
Self-rated health | ||||||
Good | 64 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 1 |
Poor | 69 | 3.2 (1.8-5.9) | 1.5 (0.7-3.0) | 50 | 2.6 (1.5-4.6) | 1.6 (0.8-3.1) |
Number of distressing somatic symptoms | ||||||
0 | 62 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 33 | 2.1 (1.0-4.3) | 1.7 (0.8-3.6) | 25 | 2.5 (1.2-5.0) | 2.0 (1.0-4.2) |
≥2 | 38 | 6.5 (2.7-18.2) | 7.3 (2.5-27.2) | 27 | 4.2 (2.0-8.9) | 3.1 (1.3-7.0) |
Emotional exhaustion | ||||||
Low | 14 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
Medium | 90 | 1.9 (0.9-4.3) | 1.8 (0.8-4.5) | 57 | 1.4 (0.6-3.4) | 1.2 (0.5-2.8) |
High | 24 | 3.6 (1.3-11.0) | 2.9 (0.9-10.5) | 18 | 2.7 (0.9-7.7) | 1.8 (0.6-5.6) |
Physical load | ||||||
Low | 72 | 1 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 1 |
High | 60 | 1.8 (1.0-3.2) | 1.3 (0.7-2.6) | 40 | 1.7 (0.9-3.0) | 1.2 (0.7-2.3) |