Research Article
Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders among District Hospital Nurses in Vietnam
Table 2
Profiles of participants at baseline for the intervention and control group.
| | Characteristics | Intervention group, | Control group, | |
| | Age (year) () | | | 0.321 | | Women (, %) | 144 (88.9) | 108 (84.4) | 0.258 | | BMI (, %) | | | < 18.5 | 9 (5.6) | 12 (9.4) | 0.459 | | 18.5-24.9 | 144 (88.9) | 109 (85.2) | | ≥ 25 | 9 (5.6) | 7 (5.5) | | Seniority | | Less than 5 years | 44 (27.2) | 17 (13.3) | 0.054 | | From 5 to 10 years | 43 (26.5) | 45 (35.2) | | From 10 to 15 years | 40 (24.7) | 40 (31.3) | | More than 15 years | 35 (21.6) | 26 (20.3) | | Have a history of musculoskeletal diseases (, %) | 38 (23.5) | 22 (17.2) | 0.191 |
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Student’s -test with two independent samples. Chi2 test with two independent samples. |
