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Table 1 Baseline business characteristics and employee demographics overall and by intervention group

From: Small + Safe + Well: lessons learned from a Total Worker Health® randomized intervention to promote organizational change in small business

Business characteristics

Overall (n = 36)

Intervention (n = 13)

Control (n = 23)

p-value

Industry

   

0.527

  Construction

3 (8%)

0 (0%)

3 (13%)

 

  Education

3 (8%)

2 (15%)

1 (4%)

 

  Health Care/Social Assistance

10 (28%)

4 (31%)

6 (26%)

 

  Public Administration

2 (6%)

0 (0%)

2 (9%)

 

  Other

18 (50%)

7 (54%)

11 (48%)

 

Size

   

0.081

  Micro (2–10)

3 (8%)

0 (0%)

3 (13%)

 

  Small (11–50)

13 (36%)

6 (46%)

7 (30%)

 

  Medium (51–200)

14 (39%)

7 (54%)

7 (30%)

 

  Large (201–500)

6 (17%)

0 (0%)

6 (26%)

 

Number of employees

 

78 (54)

127 (133)

0.209

Urban

28 (78%)

10 (77%)

18 (78%)

0.999

Employee Demographics

Overall (n = 250)

Intervention (n = 116)

Control (n = 134)

p-value

Age

41.7 (11.9)

40.8 (11.7)

42.4 (12.2)

0.329

Gender

   

0.999

  Male

63 (25%)

29 (25%)

34 (25%)

 

  Female

186 (74%)

87 (75%)

99 (74%)

 

Race/ethnicity

   

0.362

  White, non-Hispanic

217 (87%)

99 (85%)

118 (88%)

 

  Hispanic/Latino/Spanish Origin

24 (10%)

11 (9%)

13 (10%)

 

  Other or did not providea

9 (5%)

6 (6%)

3 (2%)

 

Job level

   

0.642

  Manager

92 (37%)

41 (35%)

51 (38%)

 

  Non-manager

157 (63%)

74 (64%)

83 (62%)

 

  Did not provide

1 (1%)

1 (1%)

0 (0%)

 

Tenure, years

5.4 (5.9)

4.9 (4.9)

5.8 (6.6)

0.215

Education

   

0.062

  Did not complete high school

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

  High school/GED

20 (8%)

5 (4%)

15 (11%)

 

  Some college/2-year degree

64 (26%)

28 (24%)

36 (27%)

 

  4-year college degree

107 (43%)

48 (41%)

59 (44%)

 

  Graduate/professional degree

54 (22%)

33 (29%)

21 (16%)

 

  Did not provide

5 (2%)

2 (2%)

3 (2%)

 
  1. a Detailed numbers omitted from table in the interest of maintaining participant anonymity