Baseline psychological job demands, job control, and job strain predictors of return to work at two (n = 128) and six (n = 122) months after carpal tunnel release surgery
| Variable | Two months | Six months | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not working | Working with limitations | Working successfully | Not working | Working with limitations | Working successfully | |||||||
| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | |
| *Sum across row rather than column. | ||||||||||||
| Psychological job demands | ||||||||||||
| Low | 19 | (26.8) | 21 | (29.6) | 31 | (43.7) | 10 | (15.9) | 16 | (25.4) | 37 | (58.7) |
| High | 20 | (35.7) | 15 | (26.8) | 21 | (37.5) | 9 | (15.5) | 16 | (27.6) | 33 | (56.9) |
| Job control | ||||||||||||
| High | 20 | (25.0) | 23 | (28.8) | 37 | (46.3) | 4 | (5.7) | 16 | (22.9) | 50 | (71.4) |
| Low | 19 | (39.6) | 13 | (27.1) | 16 | (33.3) | 15 | (28.8) | 16 | (30.8) | 21 | (40.4) |
| Karasek quadrants | ||||||||||||
| Low strain | 10 | (21.7) | 12 | (26.1) | 24 | (52.2) | 3 | (7.9) | 11 | (28.9) | 24 | (63.2) |
| Passive | 9 | (36.0) | 9 | (36.0) | 7 | (28.0) | 7 | (28.0) | 5 | (20.0) | 13 | (52.0) |
| Active | 10 | (30.3) | 11 | (33.3) | 12 | (36.4) | 1 | (3.2) | 5 | (16.1) | 25 | (80.6) |
| High strain | 10 | (43.5) | 4 | (17.4) | 9 | (39.1) | 8 | (29.6) | 11 | (40.7) | 8 | (29.6) |
| Job strain quotient | ||||||||||||
| 1st to 3rd quartile | 30 | (28.3) | 31 | (29.2) | 45 | (42.5) | 9 | (9.5) | 25 | (26.3) | 61 | (64.2) |
| 4th quartile | 9 | (42.9) | 5 | (23.8) | 7 | (33.3) | 10 | (38.5) | 7 | (26.9) | 9 | (34.6) |
| Active learning quotient | ||||||||||||
| 1st to 3rd quartile | 31 | (33.0) | 28 | (29.8) | 35 | (37.2) | 17 | (18.7) | 28 | (30.8) | 46 | (50.5) |
| 4th quartile | 8 | (24.2) | 8 | (24.2) | 17 | (51.5) | 2 | (6.7) | 4 | (13.3) | 24 | (80.0) |
| Total* | 39 | (30.5) | 36 | (28.1) | 53 | (41.4) | 19 | (15.6) | 32 | (26.2) | 71 | (58.2) |