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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Sense of Coherence and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: The Role of Physical and Neurological Disability.

Joanna Dymecka, Rafał Gerymski, Rafał Tataruch, Mariola Bidzan

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Joanna DymeckaDepartment of Health Psychology and Quality of Life, Institute of Psychology, Opole University, 45-040 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7092-3017
Rafał GerymskiDepartment of Health Psychology and Quality of Life, Institute of Psychology, Opole University, 45-040 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4847-1429
Rafał TataruchFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of Technology, 45-758 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1336-196X
Mariola BidzanDepartment of Clinical and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, 80-309 Gdansk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-0224-1994
University of Opole · PLOpole University of Technology · PLUniversity of Gdańsk · PL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis is a progressive demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that can lead to permanent disability and significantly impact the quality of life. The present study explores the relationship between neurological disability and disease symptoms, quality of life, and the level of sense of coherence, which is an important resource for coping with the disease. EDSS, GNDS, SOC-29, and MSIS-29 were used in the presented study. The study group consisted of 137 people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The study showed the correlation between most of the analyzed variables. Mood disability and fatigue were significant predictors of the sense of coherence and explained 34% of its variance. Physical disability and fatigue served as significant predictors of the physical aspect of quality of life, explaining 49% of its variance. Fatigue and sense of coherence were significant predictors of the psychological aspect of quality of life, explaining 47% of the variance. In studies on a group of people with multiple sclerosis, it is worth considering, in addition to the level of disability, also invisible symptoms, such as fatigue or mood disability, which are important for the quality of life and the level of resources. As this study suggests, a sense of coherence is a resource essential for the quality of life of people with disabilities.

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multiple sclerosisneurological disabilityphysical disabilityquality of lifesense of coherence

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PMID35330041
PMCPMC8949795
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