Research Article
Distribution of Number, Location of Pain and Comorbidities, and Determinants of Work Limitations among Firefighters
Table 5
Effect of area of body pain and number of painful sites on work limitation in FFs.
| Work limitation scores | Number of painful sites | Body location | One painful site | Two painful sites | Three or more painful sites | Upper extremity | Lower | Spine |
| Physical limitations | 0.6 (-0.3-1.6) | 0.7 (-0.2-1.7) | 1.0 (0.1-1.9) | 0.8 (-0.6-2.2) | 0.4 (-0.8-1.7) | 0.8 (0.1-1.6) | Mental limitations | 0.5 (-0.4-1.5) | 1.1 (0.3-2.0) | 1.2 (0.3-2.0) | 1.4 (0.9-2.7) | 0.9 (-0.3-2.0) | 0.9 (0.2-1.6) | Time limitations | 0.6 (-0.4-1.5) | 0.7 (-0.2-1.6) | 0.7 (-0.2-1.5) | 1.3 (-0.1-2.6) | 0.5 (-0.7-1.7) | 0.6 (-0.1-1.3) | Output limitation | 0.9 (-0.03-1.9) | 0.8 (-0.1-1.8) | 0.8 (-0.1-1.7) | 1.0 (-0.4-2.5) | 0.9 (-0.4-2.1) | 0.8 (0.1-1.6) |
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Reference group: having no region or number of painful sites. Significant at . |