Health-related quality of life in intensive care survivors: Associations with social support, comorbidity, and pain interference.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Experiences during a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), including pain, delirium, physical deterioration, and the critical illness itself, may all influence survivors' health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, few studies have examined the influence of social support, comorbidity, and pain interference on ICU survivors' HRQOL.

Objectives

To investigate possible associations between social support, number of comorbidities, and pain interference on HRQOL in ICU survivors.

Methods

ICU survivors responded to a survey 3 months (n = 118) and 1 year (n = 89) after ICU discharge. HRQOL was measured using the Short Form Health Survey-12 (v1), social support using the revised Social Provision Scale, pain interference using the Brief Pain Inventory-Short Fo

SUBMITTER: Langerud AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6016908 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature