Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 2 Demographic, clinical, and job-related characteristics of the study participants according to (a) resumption of the previous job and (b) maintenance of the same job tasks along with univariate association tests
From: Are work return and leaves of absence predictable after an unstable pelvic ring injury?
Variables | Resumption of the former job | P value | Maintenance of the same job tasks | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No (N = 12) | Yes (N = 38) | No (N = 17) | Yes (N = 20) | ||||
Gender | 0.639* | 0.717* | |||||
Female | 5 (41.7) | 13 (34.2) | 5 (29.4) | 7 (35.0) | |||
Male | 7 (58.3) | 25 (65.8) | 12 (70.6) | 13 (65.0) | |||
Age at surgery (years) | 46.1 ± 9.8 | 46.4 ± 13.5 | 0.937† | 46.2 ± 12.4 | 47.5 ± 14.4 | 0.768† | |
Time from trauma to definitive surgery (days) | 14.5 (9; 21.5) | 10 (5; 15) | 0.047‡ | 12 (8; 15) | 7.5 (5; 13) | 0.069‡ | |
Type of fracture | 0.705§ | 0.288§ | |||||
B | 2 (16.7) | 10 (26.3) | 3 (17.6) | 7 (35.0) | |||
C | 10 (83.3) | 28 (73.7) | 14 (82.4) | 13 (65.0) | |||
Polytrauma (ISS >15) | 0.718§ | 0.763* | |||||
No | 8 (66.7) | 28 (73.7) | 12 (70.6) | 15 (75.0) | |||
Yes | 4 (33.3) | 10 (26.3) | 5 (29.4) | 5 (25.0) | |||
ASA classification score | 0.686§ | 0.999§ | |||||
0–1 | 9 (75.0) | 31 (81.6) | 14 (82.4) | 17 (85.0) | |||
2–3 | 3 (25.0) | 7 (18.4) | 3 (17.6) | 3 (15.0) | |||
ICU admission | 0.036§ | 0.272* | |||||
No | 1 (8.3) | 17 (44.7) | 9 (52.9) | 7 (35.0) | |||
Yes | 11 (91.7) | 21 (55.3) | 8 (47.1) | 13 (65.0) | |||
Sedentary worker | 0.508* | 0.072* | |||||
No | 7 (58.3) | 18 (47.4) | 11 (64.7) | 7 (35.0) | |||
Yes | 5 (41.7) | 20 (52.6) | 6 (35.3) | 13 (65.0) | |||
Job sector | 0.416§ | 0.137§ | |||||
Private | 11 (91.7) | 29 (76.3) | 15 (88.2) | 13 (65.0) | |||
Public | 1 (8.3) | 9 (23.7) | 2 (11.8) | 7 (35.0) | |||