Associations of the Expanded Disability Status Scale with anxiety and depression in multiple sclerosis outpatients
| Autor: | Constantinos Sfagos, Charalabos Papageorgiou, Dimitris Vassilopoulos, Evangelia Kararizou, Maria-Eleftheria Evangelopoulos, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Nikolaos Triantafyllou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Cross-sectional study Severity of Illness Index Disability Evaluation Multiple Sclerosis Relapsing-Remitting Sex Factors Risk Factors Severity of illness medicine Humans Immunologic Factors Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Depressive Disorder Expanded Disability Status Scale Multiple sclerosis Beck Depression Inventory Interferon-beta General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders Cross-Sectional Studies Neurology Educational Status Anxiety Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Psychology State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 115:67-72 |
| ISSN: | 1600-0404 0001-6314 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2006.00736.x |
| Popis: | We evaluated cross-sectionally the associations of depression and anxiety with age, sex, duration of illness, educational level, degree of disability and treatment with interferon-beta in outpatients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) during a clinically stable phase of their illness.The depression status scored on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the symptoms of anxiety assessed using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the level of disability measured by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) were quantified in 86 consecutive RRMS patients.Linear regression analyses indicated that EDSS was independently (P0.001) associated with BDI and STAI and accounted for 15.7% and 18.5% of the variance in BDI and STAI respectively. The former association retained its statistical significance in multiple regression models adjusting for demographic and clinical characteristics.Disability status is an independent but moderate determinant of depression and anxiety in MS patients. |
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