Musculoskeletal Disorders and Perceived Work Demands among Female Nurses at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India

Table 3

Association of MSD with various sociodemographic variables (univariate analysis).

Variable	Any MSD		value
	Yes	No
Mean age (95% CI)	31.76	28.63
Family type
Nuclear family	110 (59.8%)	77 (40.2%)
Joint family	64 (59.3%)	45 (40.7%)
Number of family members
≤5 members	120 (58.8%)	88 (40.2%)
>5 members	53 (60.9%)	35 (30.1%)
Mean number of children (95% CI)	0.8333	0.3814	<
Duration of working hours at home	4.1322	3.3602
Appointment of housemaid at home
Yes	45 (75.00%)	15 (25.00%)
No	129 (55.6%)	107 (44.4%)
Marital status
Unmarried	62 (47.3%)	71 (52.7%)	<
Married	111 (69.4%)	51 (30.6%)

Mann-Whitney test.
Pearson Chi-square test.
A value of <0.05 was considered as significant and it has been made bold wherever it was found significant.