Last Updated on August 12, 2016

Melancholy And new physical issues are not unusual among patients discharged from the intensive care component after treatment for a potentially fatal condition called acute lung Injury, a new study finds.

The findings could also apply to ICU patients with other forms of Injury or disease who get hooked up based on the researchers.

“When people are discharged in the ICU, we tend, Intelligibly, to focus on their physical health, but our data tell us we need to concentrate on their mental health, too,” study leader Dr. O. Joseph Bienvenu, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said in a Hopkins news release.

“Melancholy will make recovery much more difficult. Identifying depressive symptoms early — and treating them — could make a real difference in how patients fare physically in the long run,” he added.

The researchers looked in physical and the melancholy amounts Skills of 186 survivors of acute lung injury three, six, 12 and 24 months after they became ill. Physical abilities contained whether people could perform Fundamental tasks of day-to-day living like shopping, preparing food and using the telephone.

Forty percent of the patients developed depressive symptoms throughout the two years of follow-up, though they had not previously experienced such symptoms.

In addition, 66 percent of the patients Damages through the follow-up span.

The common age of the patients in the study was 49, and they should be in the prime of their lives, the researchers noted. Instead, many had Become handicapped and unable to return to work.

The researchers will continue to follow these patients to find out If the depression symptoms and physical disabilities persist past the initial Followup of two years.

The analysis was released Dec. 9 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.