Research Article

Total Antioxidant Capacity and Malondialdehyde in Depressive Rotational Shift Workers

Table 1

Relationships between demographic and clinical variable and depression score.

Sociodemographic and clinical variablesBaseline (depression score)
Mean (SD) valuea

Age (year)30.75 (7.19) 0.055a
Work experience (year)6.91 (6.76)0.013a
Shift work experience (year)6.14 (6.24)0.011a
Marital status
 Single ( )13.42 (3.45)0.15b
 Married ( )14.42 (4.01)
Education
high school diploma17.67 (6.66)
 Diploma13.40 (3.65)0.02
high school diploma14.87 (3.78)
Clinical factors
 BMI kg/m224.92 (3.65)0.780a
 Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) 66.84 (10.81)0.111a
 Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) 110 (13.19)0.953a

Spearman’s correlation coefficient.
b value obtained by -test.
c value obtained from one-way ANOVA.
*There are significant differences between diploma and high school diploma < ( ) (Tukey’s test).