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Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an auto-immune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks the central nervous system. The demyelination of the nerve fibers can lead to physical, emotional, and cognitive impairments. We wanted to learn about challenges of living with the illness and how people deal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9021186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10267-z |
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description | Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an auto-immune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks the central nervous system. The demyelination of the nerve fibers can lead to physical, emotional, and cognitive impairments. We wanted to learn about challenges of living with the illness and how people deal with stress. 128 individuals with MS from Austria and the US participated in the qualitative interviews. We interviewed participants and coded their answers using inductive grounded theory. We asked three open-ended questions to inquire about life since being diagnosed with MS as well as about dealing with stress. Life shifts since diagnosis involved ‘experiencing limitations’ and could be categorized in ‘emotional changes’, ‘changes with work’, ‘changes in social interaction’, ‘physical changes’, ‘changes in the medical context’. For dealing with stress active (strategies and activities) and passive coping strategies (avoid/ignore) were employed. General stress reactions were expressed in areas of emotional, physical and /or lifestyle. We recommend developing interventions in three core areas for the MS population: (1) dealing with life changes and significant experiences with MS, (2) focusing on the areas where life shifts took place, (3) focusing on active coping with stress and discussing consequences of passive coping strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-90211862022-04-21 Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis Lex, Heidemarie Price, Pollie Clark, Lauren Sci Rep Article Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an auto-immune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks the central nervous system. The demyelination of the nerve fibers can lead to physical, emotional, and cognitive impairments. We wanted to learn about challenges of living with the illness and how people deal with stress. 128 individuals with MS from Austria and the US participated in the qualitative interviews. We interviewed participants and coded their answers using inductive grounded theory. We asked three open-ended questions to inquire about life since being diagnosed with MS as well as about dealing with stress. Life shifts since diagnosis involved ‘experiencing limitations’ and could be categorized in ‘emotional changes’, ‘changes with work’, ‘changes in social interaction’, ‘physical changes’, ‘changes in the medical context’. For dealing with stress active (strategies and activities) and passive coping strategies (avoid/ignore) were employed. General stress reactions were expressed in areas of emotional, physical and /or lifestyle. We recommend developing interventions in three core areas for the MS population: (1) dealing with life changes and significant experiences with MS, (2) focusing on the areas where life shifts took place, (3) focusing on active coping with stress and discussing consequences of passive coping strategies. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9021186/ /pubmed/35444194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10267-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Lex, Heidemarie Price, Pollie Clark, Lauren Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis |
title | Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis |
title_full | Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis |
title_fullStr | Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis |
title_short | Qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis |
title_sort | qualitative study identifies life shifts and stress coping strategies in people with multiple sclerosis |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9021186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10267-z |
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