Table 3 Asthma symptom changes in those who had made career changes because of asthma
From: Employment status and changes in working career in relation to asthma: a cross-sectional survey
Full-time workers (1) n = 951–954 | Unemployed (2) n = 176 | Work disability (3) n = 246–256 | Retired (4) n = 139 | p-value 1 vs.2 | p-value 1 vs. 3 | p-value 1 vs. 4 | |||
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Change of tasks within the same employer after asthma diagnosis | |||||||||
Was asthma the reason for changing tasks? | Mainly | 43 (51.2) | 13 (48.1) | 19 (47.5) | 12 (60.0) | <.783 | <.701 | 0.478 | |
Partly | 41 (48.8) | 14 (51.9) | 21 (52.5) | 8 (40.0) | |||||
How did change of tasks affect asthma symptoms? | Aggravated | 2 (2.5) | 2 (8.0) | 3 (8.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0.182 | 0.036 | 0.978 | |
No change | 11 (13.6) | 5 (20.0) | 9 (25.0) | 3 (15.8) | |||||
Relieved | 68 (84.0) | 18 (72.0) | 24 (66.7) | 16 (84.2) | |||||
Change of work place after asthma diagnosis | |||||||||
Was asthma the reason for changing work place? | Mainly | 52 (55.3) | 18 (62.1) | 17 (73.9) | 5 (71.4) | 0.521 | 0.104 | 0.465 | |
Partly | 42 (44.7) | 11 (37.9) | 6 (26.1) | 2 (28.6) | |||||
How did change of work place affect asthma symptoms? | Aggravated | 1 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.497 | 0.017 | 0.549 | |
No change | 8 (9.0) | 4 (14.8) | 7 (31.8) | 1 (14.3) | |||||
Relieved | 80 (89.9) | 23 (85.2) | 15 (68.2) | 86 (85.7) | |||||
Change of occupation after asthma diagnosis | |||||||||
Was asthma the reason for changing occupation? | Mainly | 61 (53.5) | 20 (60.6) | 22 (71.0) | 10 (76.9) | 0.470 | 0.082 | 0.107 | |
Partly | 53 (46.5) | 13 (39.4) | 9 (29.0) | 3 (23.1) | |||||
How did change of occupation affect asthma symptoms? | Aggravated | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0.013 | 0.042 | 0.600 | |
No change | 10 (9.7) | 8 (27.6) | 6 (20.7) | 0 (0.0) | |||||
Relieved | 93 (90.3) | 21 (72.4) | 22 (75.9) | 13 (100) | |||||