This observational study aims to describe the incidence of near-death experience (NDE) in patients who survived a critical illness. In order to help determine the potential risk factors of NDE, dissociative status and spirituality are also investigated. Finally, in patients who experienced NDE, a magnetic resonance imaging is performed to search for any structural modifications.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
126
Questionnaire to detect occurence of NDE. A NDE is identified if score \> or = 7/32
Screening for dissociative symptoms
WHOQOL-SRPB is an instrument developed to evaluate how spirituality, religiosity and personal beliefs (SRPB) are related to quality of life in health and health care.
University Hospital of Liège
Liège, Belgium
NDE
NDE occurence during ICU stay, retrospectively detected by the Greyson scale. Greyson scale is a 16 items and 32 points scale. Minimal score is 0, maximal score is 32. A NDE is suspected when score is equal or higher than 7.
Time frame: Greyson questionnaire is administered during the week following ICU discharge
Quality of life estimation
Quality of life assessment, using EQ-5D-3L
Time frame: one year after first interview
NDE
NDE occurence during ICU stay, retrospectively detected by the Greyson scale.
Time frame: one year after first interview
MCQ (Memory Characteristics Questionnaire)
analyze of the phenomenological characteristics of real and imagined memories
Time frame: one month after first interview
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Types of images to be acquired: T1, T2, Diffusion Weighted Imaging-DWI, Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery and spectroscopy