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P01-152 - Clinical Aspects of Anxiety and Depression in Multiple Sclerosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2020

C.-A. Papari
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychosociology, ‘Andrei Saguna’ University, Constanta, Romania
C.G. Cozaru
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychosociology, ‘Andrei Saguna’ University, Constanta, Romania
A. Papari
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychosociology, ‘Andrei Saguna’ University, Constanta, Romania

Abstract

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Objectives

Specialty studies show that the emotional state of the patient with Multiple Sclerosis is deteriorating in relation to the phisycal condition and medication and motor re-education without psychological re-education is just not effective. The present paper tries to make an evaluation of the anxiety and depression in pacients with Multiple Sclerosis.

Method

Two groups, each composed by 30 subjects(even proportions between men and women). The research group consisted of pacients diagnosed with MS and the control group, with subjects selected from the general population, not diagnosed with any chronic disease. Two tests were used: State Trait Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory.

Results

Anxiety, as a trait of a personality is significantly evidenced in patients diagnosed with MS, in comparison to the control group. Depresive states, with variable intensity are also more frequent at the research group, compared to the control group. The highest average of the depression was recorded in subjects diagnosed with MS for 1 year. These results were coherent with the high scores of the patients from the research group, as well as the difference that is significant from the statistical point of view (p>0.10).

Conclusions

The frequency of the psychiatric disturbances in MS is much higher than the general population. Depression and anxiety contribute greatly to the development of the disability in this particular disease.

Type
Anxiety disorders
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2010
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