title: [Medical and social condition of families of patients with multiple sclerosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the medical and social condition of 70 families having a member with multiple sclerosis of working age.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used the classification of types and kinds of families of chronically ill patients of working-age that included two sections - grouping families by health and social status.
  
  
  RESULTS
  By medical condition, most families are assessed as dysfunctional II degree, by welfare as at risk families.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both health and social status of the family depends on a number of social factors as well as the clinical characteristics of the disease, in particular, type of disease course and severity of neurological deficit.
authors.affiliation: Amur State Medical Academy, Blagoveshchensk.
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Lugovtsova
authors.affiliation: Amur State Medical Academy, Blagoveshchensk.
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Karnaukh