Health Behaviors and Overweight in Nursing Home Employees: Contribution of Workplace Stressors and Implications for Worksite Health Promotion

Table 2

Self-reported working conditions and personal factors, by age group: 1,506 U.S. nursing home employees.

	Younger than 40 years	40 years and older
Physical requirements at work
Heavy lifting (%)	61	51
Rapid and continuous physical activity (%)	82	70
Awkward working postures (%)	74	59
Physically demanding work (%)	59	43
Work organization
Low decision latitude (%)	26	26
High psychological demands (%)	92	87
Job strain (high demand, low control) (%)	23	23
Low schedule control (%)	23	17
Working at night (%)	22	23
Social support at work
Low coworker support (%)	34	31
Low supervisor support (%)	22	20
Safety and work climate
One or more assaults at work in the past 3 months (%)	48	38
Poor safety environment (%)	63	54
Employer tolerates discrimination (%)	19	18
Work-family balance and second jobs
Imbalance between work and family life (%)	49	41
Low employer support for family or other personal responsibilities (%)	45	43
Having another paid job (%)	22	19
Health behaviors and obesity
Current smoker (%)	24	26
Physically inactive (%)	23	23
Obese (BMI > 30) (%)	30	38

Number of respondents varied slightly among rows due to missing values.