Determinants of Subjective Mental and Functional Health of… : Critical Care Medicine
Care trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03671447). SETTING: Ten ICU clusters in Germany. PATIENTS: Eight hundred fifty-five patients with 1478 follow-up assessments. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: At two patient follow-ups scheduled 3 and 6 months after ICU discharge, patients rated their subjective mental and functional/physical health on two separate visual analog scales from 0 (worst) to 10 (best) in the previous week and before ICU admission. We compared pre-ICU and post-ICU subjective health and used mixed-effects regression to assess determinants of a health decline or improvement. At the first follow-up, 20% (n = 165/841) and 30% (n = 256/849) of patients reported a decline in subjective mental and functional health of at least three points, respectively; 16% (n = 133/841 and n = 137/849) outlined improvements of mental and functional health. For 65% (n = 543/841) and 54% (n = 456/849), mental and functional health did not change three points or more at the first