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. 2021 Mar 14;160(2):509–518. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.03.008

Table 2.

Cross-sectional Associations of Return to Work After ARDS With Pre-ARDS Workload Phenotypes, Functional Impairments, Pain, and Fatiguea

Variable Individual Models
Combined Model
Return to Work
Return to Work
Return to Work
Return to Work
Return to Work
OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P
Pre-ARDS workloadb
 Only high psychosocial workload Reference Reference
 High physical and low psychosocial workload 0.76 (0.25, 2.35) .64 0.40 (0.13, 1.20) .10
 High physical and high psychosocial workload 0.92 (0.35, 2.40) .86 1.17 (0.47, 2.89) .74
Functional impairmentsc
 No impairment Reference Reference
 Only psychosocial impairments 0.18 (0.06, 0.50) .001 0.40 (0.14, 1.16) .09
 Physical and low psychosocial impairment 0.08 (0.03, 0.22) <.001 0.28 (0.10, 0.78) .015
 Physical and high psychosocial impairment 0.01 (0.003, 0.05) <.001 0.07 (0.02, 0.27) <.001
Pain 0.06 (0.03, 0.14) <.001 0.21 (0.09, 0.52) .001
Fatigue 0.07 (0.03, 0.16) <.001 0.39 (0.16, 0.96) .041

The intraclass correlation (ICC) for the combined model was 62%.

a

Each column represents one model. Generalized linear mixed model with a random intercept evaluating the association of working status with the variable named in that row, adjusted for age, sex, race, pre-ARDS median household income, APACHE III (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III), hospital length of stay, and follow-up time.

b

Psychosocial workload combines cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal workload categories, with a job exhibiting low (<2 categories), or high (≥2 categories) numbers of these categories.

c

Psychosocial impairment combines cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal impairment categories, with survivors having impairments in low (<2 categories) or high (≥2 categories) number of these categories.