Association between health information, use of protective devices and occurrence of acute health problems in the Prestige oil spill clean-up in Asturias and Cantabria (Spain): a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Estimated percentage of use and breakage of protective devices according to health-protection information received.

	Total (N = 799)			Paid workers (N = 265)			Volunteers (N = 266)			Seamen (N = 133)			Bird cleaners (N = 135)
	Inform.¹ (N = 648)	Uninf.² (N = 151)		Inform.¹ (N = 221)	Uninf.² (N = 44)		Inform.¹ (N = 229)	Uninf.² (N = 37)		Inform.¹ (N = 84)	Uninf.² (N = 49)		Inform.¹ (N = 114)	Uninf.² (N = 21)
	%	%	p	%	%	p	%	%	p	%	%	p	%	%	p
Suit
Used	77.5	64.8	0.017	87.6	87.8	0.973	84.7	65.6	0.008	88.8	85.5	0.580	35.6	28.9	0.559
Torn	33.1	59.5	<0.001	36.3	44.5	0.351	18.2	45.4	0.003	75.7	81.0	0.512	8.9	28.4	0.165
Gloves
Used	99.4	98.4	0.126	98.5	97.5	0.666	100.0	100.0	-	93.6	95.9	0.588	99.0	94.8	0.194
Torn	13.2	17.0	0.228	11.8	11.8	0.987	7.2	16.7	0.061	6.4	8.5	0.660	31.8	44.6	0.279
Safety goggles
Used	76.2	63.2	0.014	88.0	70.3	0.006	79.6	65.2	0.062	72.0	56.5	0.073	54.0	55.6	0.894
Broken	0.6	1.1	0.622	1.0	2.6	0.398	0.0	0.0	-	0.0	0.0	-	1.1	0.0	0.662
Protective hat
Used	15.5	11.2	0.300	13.8	18.8	0.452	17.2	11.4	0.356	12.0	4.1	0.135	10.0	10.3	0.959
Torn	0.0	0.0	-	0.0	0.0	-	0.0	0.0	-	0.0	0.0	-	0.0	0.0	-
Mask
Used	91.7	90.0	0.567	95.1	87.8	0.071	91.0	93.5	0.613	74.4	62.8	0.161	96.8	100.0	0.393
Broken	1.0	3.2	0.057	1.1	2.1	0.588	0.7	9.4	<0.001	0.0	0.0	-	1.0	0.0	0.654
Boots
Used	88.7	91.2	0.410	98.0	93.9	0.116	99.0	100.0	0.559	93.6	95.9	0.588	36.1	52.6	0.166
Broken	0.4	1.5	0.123	0.4	3.9	0.016	0.0	0.0	-	1.3	0.0	0.436	0.0	0.0	-

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