Table 4: WRMSDs' risk factors and patients' working sectors.

Variables

Patients without WRMSD (n = 318)

Patients with WRMSD (n = 78)

p-value

Sector

Cement, ceramic (n = 230)

Metal-metallurgy (n = 40)

Mines (n = 26)

Petrochemistry (n = 20)

Construction (n = 15)

Agriculture and Farming (n = 6)

Others (n = 59)

204 (%88.7)

24 (%60)

23 (%88.5)

12 (%60)

13 (%86.7)

4 (%66.7)

38 (%64.4)

26 (%11.3)

16 (%40)

3 (%11.5)

8 (%40)

2 (%13.3)

2 (%33.3)

21 (%35.6)

< 0.001

Shift work

No (n = 237)

Yes (n = 159)

189 (%80)

129 (%81.2)

48 (%20)

30 (%18.8)

0.70

Having psychosocial risk factor

No (n = 107)

Yes (n = 289)

97 (%91)

221 (%76.5)

10 (%9)

68 (%23.5)

0.002