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Injured Workers Perspectives on Recovery following Non-Life-Threatening Acute Orthopaedic Trauma: A Descriptive Study

Table 2

Grouped response to question according to follow-up time-point: What are the most important things necessary for you to best recover? Chi square analysis for differences in the frequency of the most common responses according to the three postinjury time-points.


	Week 2		Week 12		Week 26		Chi square	df
		%		%		%	Chi square	df

Time and rest	82	35.2	29	15.5	10	8.5	39.9	2	0.000
Positive attitude looking after myself	19	8.1	29	15.5	23	19.5	10.2	2	0.006
Doing the therapy or exercises that have been prescribed	37	15.8	39	20.9	29	24.5	4.13	2	0.127
Following instructions	24	10.3	4	2.1	1	0.85	19.6	2	0.000
Further repair of the injury (including further treatment)	23	9.8	25	13.4	8	6.7	3.57	2	0.168
Family support	9	3.8	3	1.6	12	10.1
Returning to work	4	1.7	5	2.6	5	4.2
Support from workplace including income support	5	2.15	7	3.7	3	2.5
Quality care	4	1.7	6	3.2	3	2.5
Get back into a normal routine	9	3.8	6	3.2	0
I have recovered			5	2.6	7	5.9
Nothing as it will not change			9	4.8	1	0.84

Total number of responses	233		186		118
Number and proportion of participants who provided responses	161	(86.6%)	148	(79.6%)	108	(50.1%)
Mean number of responses/responding participant	1.4		1.3		1.1

Responses were separated for doing the therapy and exercise and following instructions. Following instructions involved no mention of therapy or exercises. The chi square analysis () compared each response for the three time-points. Numerator is the response under consideration e.g., time and rest, denominator all other responses, df: degrees of freedom, : probability. The bold numbers refer to the number of responses and proportions for the responses provided at 12 weeks post injury.