Baseline characteristic of the workers with a chronic disease who initially have good and poor self-perceived health and the total group of the three cohorts separately
| Good self-perceived health (n=478) | Poor self-perceived health (n=227) | Total (n=705) | |||||||
| Mean (SD)/N (%) | Mean (SD)/N (%) | Mean (SD)/N (%) | |||||||
| Cohort 1992 (n=92) | Cohort 2002 (n=169) | Cohort 2012 (n=217) | Cohort 1992 (n=42) | Cohort 2002 (n=78) | Cohort 2012 (n=107) | Cohort 1992 (n=134) | Cohort 2002 (n=247) | Cohort 2012 (n=324) | |
| Age | 59.3 (2.7) | 59.0 (2.7) | 59.5 (2.7) | 59.4 (3.0) | 58.5 (2.8) | 59.6 (2.7) | 59.3 (2.8) | 58.8 (2.7) | 59.6 (2.7) |
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 52 (56.5%) | 96 (56.8%) | 116 (53.5%) | 31 (73.8%) | 47 (60.3%) | 61 (57.0%) | 83 (61.9%) | 143 (57.9%) | 177 (54.6%) |
| Female | 40 (43.5%) | 73 (43.2%) | 101 (46.5%) | 11 (26.2%) | 31 (39.7%) | 46 (43.0%) | 51 (38.1%) | 104 (42.1%) | 147 (45.4%) |
| Educational level | |||||||||
| Low | 40 (43.5%) | 57 (33.7%) | 39 (18.0%) | 20 (47.6%) | 33 (42.3%) | 28 (26.2%) | 60 (44.8%) | 90 (36.4%) | 67 (20.7%) |
| Intermediate | 36 (39.1%) | 58 (34.3%) | 94 (43.3%) | 15 (35.7%) | 28 (35.9%) | 49 (45.8%) | 51 (38.1%) | 86 (34.8%) | 143 (44.1%) |
| High | 16 (17.4%) | 54 (32.0%) | 84 (38.7%) | 7 (16.7%) | 17 (21.8%) | 30 (28.0%) | 23 (17.2%) | 71 (28.7%) | 114 (35.2%) |