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Burden of COVID-19 Pandemic Perceived by Polish Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) were expected to be particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the burden of pandemic, perceived by Polish MS patients, with regard to major contributing factors. The survey, conducted in August/September 2020, include...

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Autores principales: Pokryszko-Dragan, Anna, Chojdak-Łukasiewicz, Justyna, Gruszka, Ewa, Pawłowski, Marcin, Pawłowski, Tomasz, Rudkowska-Mytych, Anna, Rymaszewska, Joanna, Budrewicz, Sławomir
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8468201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575327
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184215
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author Pokryszko-Dragan, Anna
Chojdak-Łukasiewicz, Justyna
Gruszka, Ewa
Pawłowski, Marcin
Pawłowski, Tomasz
Rudkowska-Mytych, Anna
Rymaszewska, Joanna
Budrewicz, Sławomir
author_facet Pokryszko-Dragan, Anna
Chojdak-Łukasiewicz, Justyna
Gruszka, Ewa
Pawłowski, Marcin
Pawłowski, Tomasz
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Rymaszewska, Joanna
Budrewicz, Sławomir
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description People with multiple sclerosis (MS) were expected to be particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the burden of pandemic, perceived by Polish MS patients, with regard to major contributing factors. The survey, conducted in August/September 2020, included: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced (Brief–COPE), questions on demographic data, MS characteristics, and health-related and social aspects of pandemic burden. Relationships were searched between PSS-10 and Mini-COPE results and other analyzed items, using U Mann–Whitney test, Kruskal–Wallis ANOVA rank test and Spearman rank correlation. The survey was answered by 287 MS patients (208 female, 79 male, aged 21–69 years). Since March 2020, 2.4% of respondents had been positive for COVID-19 and 5.2% had undergone a quarantine. Mean PSS-10 score was 19.99, with moderate or high level of stress in 83.3% of respondents. Problem-focused strategies were more frequently used than emotion-focused strategies (1.76 vs. 1.16). Higher PSS-10 score was associated with comorbidities (H = 4.28), increase in major MS symptoms during the pandemic (21.92 vs. 18.06), experience of healthcare limitations (21.12 vs. 17.98), work-related (22.58 vs. 18.69), financial (22.70 vs. 18.83) and family-related problems (22.54 vs. 17.73) due to pandemic restrictions. A coping model was associated with functional disability and limitations to daily activities (H = 7.81). During the first stage of the pandemic, MS patients reported increased level of stress and preferred problem-focused coping. The level of stress and coping showed more relationships with pandemic impact upon social issues than with MS-related variables.
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spelling pubmed-84682012021-09-27 Burden of COVID-19 Pandemic Perceived by Polish Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Pokryszko-Dragan, Anna Chojdak-Łukasiewicz, Justyna Gruszka, Ewa Pawłowski, Marcin Pawłowski, Tomasz Rudkowska-Mytych, Anna Rymaszewska, Joanna Budrewicz, Sławomir J Clin Med Article People with multiple sclerosis (MS) were expected to be particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the burden of pandemic, perceived by Polish MS patients, with regard to major contributing factors. The survey, conducted in August/September 2020, included: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced (Brief–COPE), questions on demographic data, MS characteristics, and health-related and social aspects of pandemic burden. Relationships were searched between PSS-10 and Mini-COPE results and other analyzed items, using U Mann–Whitney test, Kruskal–Wallis ANOVA rank test and Spearman rank correlation. The survey was answered by 287 MS patients (208 female, 79 male, aged 21–69 years). Since March 2020, 2.4% of respondents had been positive for COVID-19 and 5.2% had undergone a quarantine. Mean PSS-10 score was 19.99, with moderate or high level of stress in 83.3% of respondents. Problem-focused strategies were more frequently used than emotion-focused strategies (1.76 vs. 1.16). Higher PSS-10 score was associated with comorbidities (H = 4.28), increase in major MS symptoms during the pandemic (21.92 vs. 18.06), experience of healthcare limitations (21.12 vs. 17.98), work-related (22.58 vs. 18.69), financial (22.70 vs. 18.83) and family-related problems (22.54 vs. 17.73) due to pandemic restrictions. A coping model was associated with functional disability and limitations to daily activities (H = 7.81). During the first stage of the pandemic, MS patients reported increased level of stress and preferred problem-focused coping. The level of stress and coping showed more relationships with pandemic impact upon social issues than with MS-related variables. MDPI 2021-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8468201/ /pubmed/34575327 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184215 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rymaszewska, Joanna
Budrewicz, Sławomir
Burden of COVID-19 Pandemic Perceived by Polish Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
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