Table 3 Risk estimates for acute* and prolonged pain† in the neck and right shoulder in relation to recorded exposure variables
Recorded variablesNeck painShoulder pain
Acute painProlonged painAcute painProlonged pain
ORadj* (95% CI)HRadj† (95% CI)ORadj* (95% CI)HRadj† (95% CI)
Mouse variables
    Usage time (interquartile range)1.04 (1.00 to 1.09)1.01 (0.97 to 1.06)1.10 (1.05 to 1.16)1.02 (0.96 to 1.08)
    Speed - mouse clicks per 25 clicks/min0.99 (0.97 to 1.02)0.84 (0.63 to 1.12)1.02 (0.99 to 1.05)1.11 (0.79 to 1.56)
    Average activity periods per 10 min1.01 (0.99 to 1.02)1.02 (0.92 to 1.13)0.99 (0.97 to 1.01)0.98 (0.86 to 1.12)
    Micro-pauses per minute0.97 (0.94 to 1.00)0.96 (0.75 to 1.24)1.02 (0.99 to 1.06)0.85 (0.62 to 1.16)
Keyboard variables
    Usage time (interquartile range)1.01 (0.98 to 1.03)1.08 (0.80 to 1.47)1.01 (0.98 to 1.04)0.87 (0.60 to 1.26)
    Speed per 100 keystrokes/min0.99 (0.96 to 1.02)0.85 (0.63 to 1.16)0.95 (0.92 to 0.98)0.72 (0.49 to 1.06)
    Average activity periods per 2 min1.00 (0.98 to 1.01)1.06 (0.96 to 1.16)0.99 (0.98 to 1.01)0.95 (0.77 to 1.16)
    Micro-pauses per minute1.01 (0.97 to 1.04)0.95 (0.84 to 1.07)0.95 (0.91 to 0.98)1.08 (0.94 to 1.23)
    Female gender (male/female)1.21 (1.16 to 1.27)1.80 (1.28 to 2.52)1.22 (1.16 to 1.28)1.81 (1.19 to 2.73)
    Age (10-year increments)1.04 (1.02 to 1.07)0.94 (0.80 to 1.11)1.06 (1.03 to 1.09)1.02 (0.84 to 1.25)
  • *Acute pain with odds ratios (OR) obtained by autoregressive ordinal logistic regression analysis; †prolonged pain with hazard ratios (HR) obtained by Cox regression analysis with mutual adjustments for fixed covariates.