ArticleBrain and behavior2018
Rehabilitation use in multiple sclerosis: Do illness representations matter?
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- Threatening illness perception and associated factors in early-stage relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Determinants of health literacy and its impact on illness perception in patients with multiple sclerosis: evidence from patient-reported outcomes.BMJ neurology open · 2025Article
- [Determinants of use of rehabilitation services before entering disability pension: Time series analysis of insured members of the German Pension Insurance Federation in Berlin and Brandenburg].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2024Article
- Experiences of receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.Disability and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Illness Beliefs, Treatment Beliefs, and Fulfilled Treatment Expectations in Psychosomatic Rehabilitation: Associations with Patient Satisfaction.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Rehabilitation use in multiple sclerosis: Do illness representations matter?Brain and behavior · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesMultidisciplinary rehabilitation improves illness outcomes and is recommended in clinical guidelines for multiple sclerosis (MS). However, many people with MS do not make use of rehabilitation. We do not know much about the barriers to the use of rehabilitation in MS, but in other patient groups, illness representations have proven to be predictors of service utilization. Therefore, the aim of our study was to explore whether, in patients with MS, illness representations are associated with self-reports of rehabilitation use in the past and the intention to use rehabilitation in the future, beyond sociodemographic and illness-related factors. MATERIALS AND
methodsPatients were recruited in a cross-sectional nationwide online survey in Germany. Hierarchical binary logistic regression analysis was used to analyze whether illness representations are associated with the use of rehabilitation in the past and the intention to use rehabilitation in the future, over and above socio-demographic and illness-related variables.
resultsThere were 590 patients, who had MS, participating in the study. Illness representations were correlated to both outcome variables beyond sociodemographic and illness-related factors: The probabilities of having the intention to use rehabilitation and of making using of rehabilitation were higher in patients who believed that their MS was controllable by treatment and perceived that their MS would have severe consequences.
conclusionsOur data suggest that addressing patients' illness representations may facilitate the intention to use and the use of multimodal rehabilitation, contributing to better illness outcomes.
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