Disability, Perceived Social Support and Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis (QUALVIE-SEP)

Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild

Status: Completed

Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT02880553

RDS_2016_11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health has shown that the environment can play a major role in patients' disability, and hence in their quality of life. This study considers social dimensions of quality of life, particularly family as well as social and professional networks.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• multiples sclerosis, according to McDonald's criteria

Exclusion criteria

• lack of French language proficiency
• severe cognitive impairment
• severe aphasia
• substance addiction
• psychiatric troubles (except for treated major depression)
• other severe neurologic or somatic disease
• pregnant or breast feeding patient