Table 4.

Social support and illness perception in the 382 included patients discharged alive from the intensive care unit

	Overall population N = 382	Resilient patientsc N = 203	Non-resilient patientsc N = 179	p value
MSPSSa, median [IQR]	75.0 [63.0–83.0]	79.0 [69.0–84.0]	71.0 [59.0–79.0]	< 0.0001
Family	27.0 [23.0–28.0]	28.0 [25.0–28.0]	25.0 [20.0–28.0]	< 0.0001
Friends	28.0 [24.0–28.0]	25.0 [20.0–28.0]	22.0 [13.0–28.0]	< 0.0001
Significant other persons	24.0 [17.0–28.0]	28.0 [26.0–28.0]	27.0 [23.0–28.0]	< 0.0001
B-IPQb, median [IQR]	37.0 [26.0–45.0]	32.0 [23.0–42.0]	40.0 [31.0–50.0]	< 0.0001
Cognitive illness representation	21.1 [15.0–28.0	20.0 [12.0–26.0]	25.0 [18.0–31.0]	< 0.0001
Emotional illness representation	12.0 [8.0–15.0]	10.0 [7.0–15.0]	13.5 [10.0–16.0]	< 0.0001
Illness comprehensibility	2.0 [0.0–5.0]	2.0 [0.0–3.0]	2.0 [1.0–5.0]	0.009

ICU intensive care unit, MSPSS Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, B-IPQ Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire, IQR interquartile range

^aThe total MSPSS score can range from 12 to 84 and each sub-score from 4 to 28. Higher values indicate stronger social support

^bThe total B-IPQ score can range from 0 to 80. The sub-scores for cognitive illness representation, emotional illness representation, and illness comprehensibility can range from 0 to 50, 0 to 20, and 0 to 10, respectively. A higher score reflects a more threatening perception of the illness

^cResilient patients had CD-RISC-25 ≥ 68. Non-resilient patients had CD-RISC-25 ≤ 67