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Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis is a progressive inflammatory disease of the the central nervous system. Problems with sexual functions are the common features of multiple sclerosis and important factor that contribute to the quality of life among affected persons. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was...

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Autores principales: Sabanagic-Hajric, Selma, Memic-Serdarevic, Amra, Sulejmanpasic, Gorana, Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9559658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36310754
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2022.34.188-192
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author Sabanagic-Hajric, Selma
Memic-Serdarevic, Amra
Sulejmanpasic, Gorana
Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra
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Memic-Serdarevic, Amra
Sulejmanpasic, Gorana
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description BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis is a progressive inflammatory disease of the the central nervous system. Problems with sexual functions are the common features of multiple sclerosis and important factor that contribute to the quality of life among affected persons. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on sexual functions domains of health related quality of life (HRQOL) in multiple sclerosis patients. METHODS: This study included 100 MS patients treated at the Department of Neurology, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo. Inclusion criteria were an Expanded Disability Status Scale score between 1.0 and 6.5, age between 18 and 65 years, stable disease on enrollment. HRQOL was evaluated by the Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life-54 questionnaire. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test were used for comparisons between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and HRQOL scores. RESULTS: Out of 60% of patients reported to have sexual dysfunction, and 55 % were female patients. Younger patients had statistical significant higher median value of sexual function score (91.68 vs. 58,28, p=0.001) and satisfaction with sexual life scores (62.5 vs 37.5 , p =0.019) comparing to older patients. Employed patients also showed statistical significant higher median value of sexual function score (82 vs. 66.7, p=0.003) comparing to unemployed patients and also statisticaly significant higher median scores considering satisfaction with sexual life among employed patients (p=0,001). There were no differences in sexual functions scores considering gender, marital status and education. Patients with higher level of disabilty, progressive type of disease, more relapses and longer diseas duration had statistical significant lower median value of sexual function score and also satifaction with sexual life scores, except for disease duration CONCLUSION: Aging, dysability and progression are major factors that contribute to lower sexual function scores and satisfaction with sexual life among multiple sclerosis patients. Althoug women reported sexual problems more often then men, impact of these problems on quality of life are similar in men and women with MS.
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spelling pubmed-95596582022-10-27 Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Sabanagic-Hajric, Selma Memic-Serdarevic, Amra Sulejmanpasic, Gorana Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra Mater Sociomed Original Paper BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis is a progressive inflammatory disease of the the central nervous system. Problems with sexual functions are the common features of multiple sclerosis and important factor that contribute to the quality of life among affected persons. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on sexual functions domains of health related quality of life (HRQOL) in multiple sclerosis patients. METHODS: This study included 100 MS patients treated at the Department of Neurology, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo. Inclusion criteria were an Expanded Disability Status Scale score between 1.0 and 6.5, age between 18 and 65 years, stable disease on enrollment. HRQOL was evaluated by the Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life-54 questionnaire. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test were used for comparisons between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and HRQOL scores. RESULTS: Out of 60% of patients reported to have sexual dysfunction, and 55 % were female patients. Younger patients had statistical significant higher median value of sexual function score (91.68 vs. 58,28, p=0.001) and satisfaction with sexual life scores (62.5 vs 37.5 , p =0.019) comparing to older patients. Employed patients also showed statistical significant higher median value of sexual function score (82 vs. 66.7, p=0.003) comparing to unemployed patients and also statisticaly significant higher median scores considering satisfaction with sexual life among employed patients (p=0,001). There were no differences in sexual functions scores considering gender, marital status and education. Patients with higher level of disabilty, progressive type of disease, more relapses and longer diseas duration had statistical significant lower median value of sexual function score and also satifaction with sexual life scores, except for disease duration CONCLUSION: Aging, dysability and progression are major factors that contribute to lower sexual function scores and satisfaction with sexual life among multiple sclerosis patients. Althoug women reported sexual problems more often then men, impact of these problems on quality of life are similar in men and women with MS. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9559658/ /pubmed/36310754 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2022.34.188-192 Text en © 2022 Selma Sabanagic-Hajric, Amra Memic-Serdarevic, Gorana Sulejmanpasic, Enra Mehmedika-Suljic https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sabanagic-Hajric, Selma
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Sulejmanpasic, Gorana
Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra
Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
title Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
title_full Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
title_fullStr Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
title_full_unstemmed Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
title_short Influence of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics on Sexual Function Domains of Health Related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
title_sort influence of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on sexual function domains of health related quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9559658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36310754
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2022.34.188-192
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