title: Finding Quality of Life Despite MS: Harnessing Resilience.
abstract: The ability to cope emotionally and experience quality of life (QoL) do not appear to be correlated with severity of disease or disability amongst people with multiple sclerosis (MS). An exploration of the health-related literature (trauma, chronic illness, disability, loss) from a resiliency perspective identifies a constellation of variables: personality and environmental characteristics, resiliency processes and drives for growth and healing which can guide the health-care practitioner wishing to enable QoL despite MS.
authors.affiliation: Sharon A Vitali Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Oxford Brookes University Jack Straws Lane Oxford OX3 0FL UK Tel: +44 (0)1865 488159 E-mail: svitali@brookes.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Sa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vitali
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D012720:Severity of Illness Index