Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Social support during intensive care unit stay might improve mental impairment and consequently health-related quality of life in survivors of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. | Available online http content 10 5 R147 Research Social support during intensive care unit stay might improve mental impairment and consequently health-related quality of life in survivors of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome Maria Deja Claudia Denke Steffen Weber-Carstens Jurgen Schroder Christian E Pille Frank Hokema Konrad J Falke and Udo Kaisers Open Access Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum Universitatsmedizin Berlin Augustenburger Platz 1 D-13353 Berlin Germany Contributed equally Corresponding author Maria Deja Received 20 Apr 2006 Revisions requested 2 Jun 2006 Revisions received 30 Jul 2006 Accepted 16 Oct 2006 Published 16 Oct 2006 Critical Care 2006 10 R147 doi cc5070 This article is online at http content 10 5 R1 47 2006 Deja et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction We investigated health-related quality of life HRQoL and persistent symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD in long-term survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS . We wished to evaluate the influence of PTSD on HRQoL and to investigate the influence of perceived social support during intensive care unit ICU treatment on both PTSD symptoms and HRQoL. Methods In ARDS patients we prospectively measured HRQoL Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form SF-36 symptoms of PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome 10-Questions Inventory PTSS-10 perceived social support Questionnaire for Social Support F-Sozu and symptoms of psychopathology Symptom Checklist-90-R and collected sociodemographic data including current employment status. Sixty-five out of 129 enrolled survivors responded on .
