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Table 1 Gender-specific participants’ characteristics according to the presence of sleep disorders

From: The prevalence and determining factors of sleep disorders vary by gender in the Egyptian public officials: a large cross-sectional study

 

Female public officials

P valuea

Male public officials

P valuea

No sleep disorders, n = 1198

Sleep disorders, n = 425

No sleep disorders, n = 1300

Sleep disorders, n = 220

Age, yb

38 (30–47)

35 (29–45)

 < 0.01

45 (35–54)

38 (3–49)

 < 0.01

Urban residence, %

58.7

65.4

0.01

34.8

48.0

 < 0.01

Education,%

  

 < 0.01

  

0.45

  ≤ High school

15.8

7.3

26.2

22.7

 Vocational

19.0

18.8

23.5

22.7

 University or above

65.2

73.9

50.3

54.6

Occupation, %

  

 < 0.01

  

0.40

 Professional

63.6

72.7

47.1

51.8

 Clerk

25.1

18.6

35.3

33.2

 Manual or technical

11.3

8.7

17.6

15.0

Household income, %

  

 < 0.01

  

0.10

 Lowest

26.7

20.2

23.7

17.4

 Middle

71.5

75.7

75.0

80.8

 Highest

1.8

4.1

1.3

1.8

Smoking habit, %

  

0.91

  

0.71

 Never

99.2

99.4

61.5

61.4

 Former

0.4

0.3

29.2

30.9

 Current

0.4

0.3

9.3

7.7

Physical activity, METs unitb

45 (42–57)

45 (39–57)

0.62

49 (43–58)

50 (44–57)

0.73

Body mass index, Kg/m2 b

27.6 (24.6–31.3)

28.1 (25.9–32.0)

0.02

26.9 (24.8–29.0)

27.4 (25.0–30.1)

0.03

Marital status, %

  

0.82

  

 < 0.01

 Single

14.4

16.0

7.5

15.0

 Divorced

2.6

2.8

1.0

0.9

 Widowed

5.2

4.5

0.9

0.5

 Married

77.8

76.7

90.6

83.6

Employed spouse, %

30.9

18.8

 < 0.01

37.8

32.9

0.16

Family type, %

  

0.54

  

0.05

 Nuclear

74.4

73.9

84.6

78.6

 Multigeneration

24.3

25.4

13.8

19.1

 Living alone

1.3

0.7

1.6

2.3

Total family members, nb

3 (2–4)

3 (2–4)

0.70

4 (3–5)

3 (2–5)

 < 0.01

Number of minors in the family, nb

1 (0–2)

1 (0–2)

0.29

1 (0–2)

1 (0–2)

0.89

Job hours, h/db

6 (6–8)

6 (6–8)

0.71

8 (6–8)

8 (6–8)

0.97

Night shift job, %

15.1

19.5

0.03

21.5

26.4

0.11

Extra job, %

11.9

17.9

 < 0.01

41.7

61.4

 < 0.01

High job demands, %

51.4

74.6

 < 0.01

52.2

72.3

 < 0.01

Low job control, %

46.0

71.1

 < 0.01

51.5

71.8

 < 0.01

Low worksite social support, %

39.9

47.4

 < 0.01

48.2

76.8

 < 0.01

Low family social support, %

55.5

69.2

 < 0.01

57.2

76.4

 < 0.01

Chronic disease history, %

25.5

31.5

0.02

23.7

27.0

0.05

Depression history, %

12.5

21.9

 < 0.01

7.2

18.6

 < 0.01

  1. A frequency of any sleep disorder of the Jenkins Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire of > 4 (> = 15 days per the previous month) was used to define the group of public officials with sleep disorders
  2. aAccording to the Mann–Whitney or the Chi-square test
  3. bMedian (interquartile range), all such variables