Work-Family Conflict among Iranian Emergency Medical Technicians and Its Relationship with Time Management Skills: A Descriptive Study

Table 1

Participants’ demographic and Work-Family Conflict characteristics.

Characteristics	Percentage	Mean ± SD	value
Age			0.84
Up to 25	12.50	51 ± 12
26–30	41.70	57 ± 10
31–35	23.40	54 ± 10
36–40	10.40	55 ± 11
41–45	7.80	59 ± 13
46 and higher	3.10	51 ± 8
Sex			0.376
Male	97.40	55.7 ± 11
Female	2.60	63 ± 26
Marital status			0.950
Married	69.80	55.84 ± 11
Single	30.2	55.98 ± 11
Education			0.811
Up to junior high school	18.2	56.44 ± 11
Associate degree	45.3	55.23 ± 11
Bachelor	33.9	56.42 ± 11
Master and higher	2.6	58.50 ± 3
Family members			0.754
Up to 2	35	56.48 ± 7
3–5	54.4	53.39 ± 8
6 and higher	10	53.86 ± 7
Need for care			0.329
Yes	51.8	56.87 ± 10
No	48.2	54.94 ± 12
Shift-work schedule			0.04
Daily (morning shift)	1.6	52.71 ± 7
24-hour on/48-hour off	30.3	59.16 ± 13
Variable	68.1	54.64 ± 10
Employment status			0/05
Formal, governmental work	29.7	53.10 ± 9
Nonformal, governmental work	9.4	56.83 ± 10
Contractual, governmental work	54.2	57.50 ± 11
2-year service commitment	6.7	49 ± 9
Shift-work exchange limitation			0/02
Yes	34.9	58.6 ± 10
No	63.5	56.16 ± 11
Working hours per month			0.572
Obliged	7.9	57.75 ± 8
Obliged and overtime	92.1	55.79 ± 11
Workplace location			0.136
Rural EMS base	30.7	58.21 ± 11
Urban EMS base	24.5	52.45 ± 8
Rural and urban EMS base	38.5	56.6 ± 12
Administrative unite/EOC	6.3	50.50 ± 2
Workplace-home distance (km)			0.595
Up to 20	36.5	55.9 ± 9
21–40	25.5	56.3 ± 12
41–60	17.7	54.38 ± 12
61 and higher	20.3	58.16 ± 12
Training course			0.274
Yes	17.3	63.63 ± 13
No	82.7	54.61 ± 10
Household income			0.195
Very good	2.1	51.50 ± 14
Good	9.4	55.00 ± 12
Medline	73.4	55.00 ± 11
Weak	14.1	61.26 ± 07
Very weak	1	62.24 ± 10