Table 1 Baseline characteristics of employees with and without chronic disease (total population N = 1125)
Unit, categories, range | Employees with chronic disease (N = 739) | Employees without chronic disease (N = 386) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean/N | SD/% | Mean/N | SD/% | ||
Demographic characteristics | |||||
Age | Years | 61.29 | 1.87 | 61.33 | 1.97 |
Gender | Women | 312 | 42.2% | 142 | 36.8% |
Educational level | Low | 232 | 31.4% | 104 | 26.9% |
Intermediate | 249 | 33.7% | 133 | 34.5% | |
High | 258 | 34.9% | 149 | 38.6% | |
Socioeconomic characteristics | |||||
Option value | Ln | 6.52 | 3.05 | 6.64 | 3.12 |
Income | Q1 (0–25%) | 312 | 42.2% | 157 | 40.7% |
Q2 (26–50%) | 79 | 10.7% | 32 | 8.3% | |
Q3 (51–75%) | 192 | 26.0% | 87 | 22.5% | |
Q4 (76–100%) | 156 | 21.1% | 110 | 28.5% | |
Quartile equity | Q1 (0–25%) | 186 | 38.7% | 103 | 39.3% |
Q2 (26–50%) | 71 | 14.8% | 32 | 12.2% | |
Q3 (51–75%) | 110 | 22.9% | 58 | 22.1% | |
Q4 (76–100%) | 114 | 23.7% | 69 | 26.3% | |
Work characteristics | |||||
Physical load | 1–5 | 1.76 | 0.86 | 1.60 | 0.77 |
Mental load | 1–5 | 4.18 | 0.67 | 4.20 | 0.64 |
Procedural justice | 1–5 | 3.28 | 0.81 | 3.36 | 0.84 |
Working in (semi-)skilled manual labor | Yes | 50 | 6.8% | 22 | 5.7% |
Working in transport | Yes | 17 | 2.3% | 11 | 2.8% |
Working in healthcare | Yes | 101 | 13.7% | 44 | 11.4% |
Permanent contract | Yes | 671 | 91.0% | 355 | 92.7% |
Supervisory tasks | Yes | 172 | 23.4% | 114 | 29.6% |
Working with substances | Yes | 168 | 22.7% | 71 | 18.4% |
Evening / night shifts | Yes | 261 | 35.5% | 148 | 38.3% |
Years of physically heavy work | > = 8 years | 263 | 35.9% | 97 | 25.3% |
Years of mentally heavy work | > = 16.5 years | 356 | 48.9% | 184 | 48.3% |
Health | |||||
Perceived health | Good | 551 | 74.6% | a | a |
Perceived physical health | Average 50 | 47.64 | 9.22 | 55.26 | 4.08 |
Feeling full of life | Yes | 564 | 76.6% | 354 | 91.9% |
Feeling worn out | No | 636 | 86.3% | 371 | 96.4% |
Fatigue | No | 555 | 75.4% | 365 | 94.8% |
Depressive symptoms | 1–4 | 1.53 | 0.46 | 1.35 | 0.34 |
Recovery and relaxation | 1–5 | 2.99 | 0.76 | 3.06 | 0.75 |
Problems with leg / feet | No | 309 | 42.6% | 287 | 75.9% |
Body height | Centimeters | 174.26 | 8.97 | 175.39 | 9.43 |
BMI | Kg / m2 | 27.82 | 4.64 | 25.67 | 3.42 |
# days active for at least 30 min / week | > = 2 days | 553 | 75.0% | 298 | 77.4% |
# days intensively active for at least 20 min / week | > = 2 days | 282 | 38.5% | 161 | 41.9% |
Social factors | |||||
Partner with paid employment | Yes | 239 | 32.5% | 140 | 36.4% |
Work disabled partner | Yes | 40 | 5.4% | 21 | 5.5% |
Attitude partner with regard to quitting work | No partner | 191 | 26.2% | 77 | 20.4% |
(Very) unpleasant | 42 | 5.8% | 29 | 7.7% | |
Neither pleasant nor unpleasant / pleasant | 497 | 68.1% | 271 | 71.9% | |
Attitude partner with regard to continued employment | No partner | 191 | 26.5 | 77 | 20.5% |
Very unpleasant | 53 | 7.4% | 24 | 6.4% | |
Unpleasant | 94 | 13.0% | 49 | 13.0% | |
Neither pleasant nor unpleasant | 258 | 35.8% | 131 | 34.8% | |
Pleasant | 91 | 12.6% | 67 | 17.8% | |
Very pleasant | 34 | 4.7% | 28 | 7.4% | |
Missing family activities due to work obligations | Yes | 346 | 46.8% | 164 | 42.5% |