[Social handicap at the onset of the multiple sclerosis].
Multiple sclerosis is the most frequent cause of handicap in young adults. Because of the young age of patients, the chronic relapsing course, the multifocal consequences of lesions, and the frequent progressive chronic course, multiple sclerosis has multiple consequences including individuals, familial, social and professional, that induces, in the early stage, a wide social handicap overflowing consequences of the neurological deficit. Since the onset of the disease, social events are very frequent: jobless and decrease of salaries (50% of the cases), divorce (10%), daily help (12%).
Service de Neurologie, CHU Albert Chenevier/Henri Mondor, AP-HP, Université Paris XII et Réseau SINDEFI-SEP, Créteil, France. alain.creange@hmn.ap-hop-paris.fr
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D000328:Adult; D018450:Disease Progression; D004651:Employment; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior