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Table 1 Standardized incident ratios (SIR) and incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), attributable risk fractions among the exposed (AFE) and estimated number of cases of CTS in the high-risk jobs in men and/or women

From: Theoretical impact of simulated workplace-based primary prevention of carpal tunnel syndrome in a French region

 

N Workers m

% Workersa

SIRjobb

95%

CIc

ICTSd

Rangee

AFE f

Rangeg

N job-cts h

Rangei

N WR-CTS j

Rangek

‘Agriculture jobs’

 Womenl

5077

0.7

3.8

2.9

5.0

16.1

12.0

21.2

77.0

69.5

82.6

82

61

108

63

42

89

 Menl

9907

1.3

2.0

1.2

3.1

3.5

2.1

5.5

64.5

42.0

78.3

34

20

54

22

8

42

 Total

14,984

1.0

         

116

81

162

85

50

131

‘Food industry jobs’

 Womenl

7442

1.1

4.9

3.1

7.2

20.4

13.2

30.2

83.0

74.7

88.6

152

98

225

126

73

199

 Menl

7370

0.9

6.0

3.4

9.7

10.6

6.1

17.2

88.3

80.7

92.9

78

45

127

69

36

118

 Total

14,811

1.0

         

230

143

352

195

109

317

‘Shoe industry jobs’

 Womenl

1305

0.2

2.9

2.0

3.9

12.1

8.6

16.5

71.0

60.1

78.9

16

11

22

11

7

17

 Men

381

0.0

1.7

0.5

3.9

3.0

1.0

7.0

71.7

31.6

88.3

1

0

3

1

0

3

 Total

1686

0.1

         

17

11

25

12

7

20

‘Construction jobs’

 Women

610

0.1

8.7

0.2

48.3

36.5

0.9

203.1

93.8

60.7

99.0

22

1

124

21

1

123

 Menl

31,329

4.0

2.6

1.8

3.5

4.5

3.2

6.2

65.5

51.8

75.4

142

100

196

93

52

148

 Total

31,939

2.1

         

164

101

320

114

53

271

‘Transport jobs’

 Women

2691

0.4

2.1

0.3

7.8

9.0

1.1

32.6

88.8

55.6

97.2

24

3

88

21

2

86

 Menl

18,955

2.4

2.5

1.5

4.0

4.4

2.6

7.0

69.5

51.0

81.0

84

50

133

58

25

108

 Total

21,646

1.4

         

108

53

221

79

27

194

‘Cleaning jobs’

 Womenl

7434

1.1

3.2

1.8

5.1

13.3

7.7

21.3

74.3

58.6

84.1

99

58

158

74

34

133

 Men

5671

0.7

0.6

0

3.6

1.1

0

6.3

71.0

0

96.0

6

0

36

4

0

35

 Total

13,105

0.9

         

105

58

194

78

34

168

Group 1

 Women

24,559

3.5

         

395

232

725

316

159

647

 Men

73,613

9.3

         

345

215

549

247

121

454

 Total

98,172

6.6

         

740

447

1274

563

280

1101

‘Trade jobs’

 Womenl

36,197

5.1

1.8

1.3

2.5

7.6

5.3

10.5

53.6

35.1

66.8

274

192

379

147

67

253

 Men

8323

1.1

0.9

0.1

3.3

1.6

0.2

5.9

76.2

4.1

94.1

14

2

49

11

0

46

 Total

44,520

3.0

         

288

194

428

158

67

299

‘Healthcare jobs’

 Womenl

52,492

7.4

1.7

1.4

2.2

7.3

5.8

9.0

48.2

34.8

58.7

381

302

475

183

105

279

 Men

6774

0.9

0

  

0

  

0

  

0

  

0

  

 Total

59,266

4.0

         

381

302

475

183

105

279

‘Personal services health jobs’

 Womenl

49,404

7.0

1.3

1.0

1.6

5.3

4.0

6.8

23.2

0.5

40.7

261

200

335

60

1

136

 Men

913

0.1

3.9

0.1

21.6

6.9

0.2

38.3

90.3

33.1

98.6

6

0

35

5

0

35

 Total

50,317

3.4

         

267

200

370

65

1

171

Group 2

 Women

138,093

19.5

         

916

694

1189

390

173

668

 Men

16,011

2.0

         

20

2

101

16

0

81

 Total

154,104

10.3

         

936

696

1290

406

173

749

All high-risk jobs

 Women

159,351

22.5

2.0

1.8

2.3

8.5

7.6

9.5

59.9

54.1

64.9

1265

922

1702

664

329

1106

 Men

67,561

8.5

2.7

2.1

3.3

4.7

3.8

5.8

68.1

59.7

74.8

338

215

510

242

121

416

 Total

226,912

15.1

         

1603

1137

2212

906

450

1522

Whole population

 Women

914,999

100

–

  

4.2

  

–

  

3846

  

–

  

 Men

914,957

100

–

  

1.8

  

–

  

1623

  

–

  

 Total

1,829,956

100

–

  

3.0

  

–

  

5469

  

–

  
  1. ljobs at high risk of CTS; m2009 INSEE Census data; a. % of the whole regional population; b. Standardized incidence ratios of CTS (SIRjob-cts); c. 95% confidence interval (CI); d. Incidence of CTS per 1000 persons-years (Ijob-cts); e. Range computed using the lower and upper limits of the 95% CI of SIRjob-cts; f. Attributable fractions of CTS (AFEjob-cts(%)); g. Range calculated using the lower and upper limits of the 95% CI of aRRjob-cts (data not shown); h. Total number of CTS (Njob-cts) in the job considered; i. Range computed using the number of workers of each job and gender (N) and the lower and upper limits of the range of Ijob-cts; j. Number of WR-CTS cases (Njob-wr-cts); k. Range computed using the lower and upper limits of the range of AFEjob-cts(%)
  2. Jobs labels: ‘Agriculture jobs’: skilled agricultural workers and laborers (PCS code 1) in the agriculture sector (NACE code 1); ‘Food industry jobs’: food and related products machine operators (PCS 67) in the meat and food industry sector (NACE 15), ‘Shoe industry jobs’: machine operators and assemblers (PCS 67) in the shoe industry sector (NACE 19); ‘Construction jobs’: building craft workers (PCS 63) in the construction sector (NACE 45); ‘Transport jobs’: drivers and mobile plant operators (PCS 64) in the transport sector (NACE 60); ‘Cleaning jobs’: personal service workers and cleaners (PCS 68) in the services to enterprises sector (NACE 74); ‘Trade jobs’: sales workers and cashiers (PCS 55) in the trade and commerce sectors (NACE 52); ‘Healthcare jobs’: government and public service personal care workers (PCS 52) in the health sector (NACE 85); ‘Personal services health jobs’: personal service workers (PCS 56) in the health sector (NACE 85)
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