Psychological profiles in patients with multiple sclerosis. A preliminary investigation.
Most psychological and psychiatric studies of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have failed to take into account the varying demographic and disease-related factors that may be expected to play a role in patients' adjustment to this disease. We describe the psychological response of patients to MS as a function of age, sex, educational level, disease state, length of disease, physical disability, manual dexterity, and abstract reasoning. Several resulting response patterns are discussed.
D000367:Age Factors; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors