Assessment of Load Manual Lifting among Shelf-Stoking Workers in Chain Stores: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Comparison of the median of the variable lifting index (VLI) among gender groups of the workers studied (n = 101).

Gender	VLI	P value^†
	Median (IQR)
Male (n = 42)	1.67 (1.01, 1.73)	0.035
Female (n = 59)	1.27 (0.50, 1.41)
Total (n = 101)	1.5 ± 0.9	—

Variable lifting index. Interquartile range. ^†Mann–Whitney U test.