Identifying lower limb problems and the types of safety footwear worn in the Australian wine industry: a cross-sectional survey

Table 1 Responses to questions relating to severity of pain at work

	Question	Mean	SD	F1%	F2%	F3%	F4%	F5%
(a)	Rate the level of pain you experienced in the last 12 months.	3.47	0.96	4.9	8.6	30.8	45.8	9.9
(b)	How often did you experience this pain?	2.94	1.01	0	43.8	20.9	27.7	7.6
	Were you limited in the duties you could do at work?	2.12	0.99	27.7	45.2	14.8	11.1	1.2
	Has it caused you to have difficulties in your work activities?	2.26	0.89	16.6	52.5	20.4	9.3	1.2

Response range and definition: (a) 1-low, 2-very mild, 3-mild, 4-moderate, 5-severe. (b) 1-never, 2-occasionally, 3-many times, 4-very often, 5-always. F1, F2, F3, F4, F5- Frequency (%) of response 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Mean response mean, SD standard deviation

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