Self-reported use of protective gloves and cotton under-gloves at baseline and follow up
| Intervention group (n = 136) | Comparison group (n = 280) | Stopped as gut cleaners (n = 79) | Total (n = 495) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | Follow up | Baseline | Follow up | Baseline | Follow up | Baseline | Follow up | |
| Where appropriate, results expressed as % (number). | ||||||||
| *Significant difference between intervention and comparison and “stopped as gut cleaners” (p<0.05). | ||||||||
| †Significant difference between baseline and follow up. | ||||||||
| n.r., not relevant. | ||||||||
| n.d., no data; the question was not included in the baseline survey. | ||||||||
| Use gloves at work at the moment (E1) | 39.0% (53) | 47.1%* (64) | 43.2% (121) | 37.5% (105) | 35.4% (28) | n.r. | 40.8% (202) | n.r. |
| Relative change % | +20.8% (not significant) | −13.2% (not significant) | n.r. | n.r. | ||||
| Use cotton gloves under rubber or plastic gloves (E2) | n = 109 | n = 96 | n = 220 | n = 200 | n = 57 | – | n = 386 | – |
| 4.6% (5) | 26.0% (25) | 13.2% (29) | 21.0% (42) | 5.3% (3) | n.r. | 9.6% (37) | n.r. | |
| Relative change % | +465.2% (p<0.001)† | +59.1% (p<0.05)† | n.r. | n.r. | ||||
| Changed glove type the last year | n.d. | 13.5% (13) | n.d. | 7.4% (15) | n.d. | n.r. | n.d. | n.r. |