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Available online /content/10/5/R147 Vol 10 No 5 Open Access 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, Jürgen Schröder, Christian E Pille, Frank Hokema, Konrad J Falke and Udo Kaisers Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353 Berlin, Germany * Contributed equally Corresponding author: Maria Deja, maria.deja@charite.de 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:10.1186/cc5070) This article is online at: /content/10/5/R147 © 2006 Deja et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), 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 Results HRQoL was significantly reduced in all dimensions in (HRQoL) and persistent symptoms of post-traumatic stress comparison with age- and gender-adjusted healthy controls. disorder (PTSD) in long-term survivors of acute respiratory Eighteen patients (29%) were identified as being at increased distress syndrome (ARDS). We wished to evaluate the influence risk for PTSD. PTSD risk was significantly linked with anxiety of P