Table 1.

Pearson’s correlations between demographic and social factors with psychological symptoms.

		f or M	SD or %	IES-r	HAS r	HDS
Gender	Female	14	48	0.26	0.16	-0.28
Years of education1	≥12yrs	18	62	-0.12	-0.25	-0.26
Companion [spouse or partner]	With	18	62	0.23	0.28	0.34
Children	With	19	66	0.19	0.27	0.30
Income2	Medium	14	48	-0.42*	-0.27	-0.41*
Another important event3	Yes	5	19	0.62**	0.30	0.09
Mental health care services4 before ICU	Yes	3	10	0.17	0.20	0.19
Mental health care services after ICU	Yes	8	28	0.01	-0.12	-0.06
Negative occupational change5	With	10	34	0.43*	0.43*	0.53**
Age		46.66	15.15	-0.03	0.01	0.28
Months of sick leave6		5.31	5.35	0.53*	0.36	0.45
Social Constraint		2.12	0.92	0.53**	0.27	0.40*
Desire to talk about ICU (DT)7		3.79	1.66	0.28	0.47*	0.16
Frequency of ICU talks (FT)		3.95	1.28	0.28	0.38*	0.27

N=29 unless otherwise noted; *p<0.05, **p<0.01; IES-r= impact of event scale-revised, HAS= anxiety subscale of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), HDS= depression subscale of HADS, ICU= intensive care unit; ¹Eleven participants had nine years of education or less, ²Fifteen participants reported low income; ³N=26, three men reported as additional stressors health problems (past or continuous) and two women family events, ⁴The term “services” is referred either to psychiatric prescription or to psychological sessions; ⁵With refers to participants who had been working before ICU admission and a year after the ICU stay either they were unemployed or retired (one case); ⁶This factor refers only to participants who had been working prior to ICU admission (n=18, 17 valid cases because a participant didn’t report the time of sick leave); ⁷Spearman Statistic was used.