3.6. Factors Associated with Work Related Elbow/Forearm and Hand/Wrist MS Disorders. In bivariate logistic analysis, variables such as gender, educational level, monthly salary, year of service, habit of doing physical activities, employment status, payment method, and medical history of systemic illness were significantly associated with elbow/forearm MS disorders; however, after adjusting for the effects of other variables gender and monthly salary were independently associated with each other. Moreover, year of service, habit of doing physical activities, and payment methods were significantly associated with elbow/forearm disorders. Being males to be a risk for the problems than females [AOR = 1.8,
95% CI: 1.7–4.8]. Those who had service of >16 years were about 5 times more likely to develop elbow/forearm disorder than those who had short (1–5 years) years of service [AOR =
4.7, 95% CI: 1.55–13.02].
Workers who did not have habit of doing physical activities were 5 times more likely to develop elbow/forearm