BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis is accompanied by secondary clinical signs such as insomnia. Considering the side effects of drugs and also increasing acceptability of psychotherapy methods in health systems, we aimed to determine the effect of group cognitive behavioral therapy on the quality of sleep in women with multiple sclerosis in 2014. METHODS This study is a randomized controlled clini...

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating disease affecting one million people worldwide, with a significant burden of psychiatric comorbidity. Depression is the commonest psychiatric manifestation but still remains largely underdiagnosed and undertreated. The present work reviews current knowledge on diagnosis, assessment, and somatic and psychotherapeutic treatment interventions for depre...

The purpose of this scientometric study is to analyze the multiple sclerosis research in Science Citation Index-Expanded from 1992 to 2019 in order to determine the top features, trends, and topics. Articles related to multiple sclerosis in the section of title, abstract, keywords, and KeyWords Plus were retrieved from the Science Citation Index-Expanded and analyzed based on various indicators...

results two major themes were extracted from the analysis of the transcripts: “comprehensive caring commitment” and “patients’ medication grudge”. conclusions according to the findings, the nurses are in a unique position to care for people with ms; therefore they should be ready to provide high-quality patient care in ms patients. patients must be encouraged to study about their condition and ...

objective: the main purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of lazarus multimodal psychotherapy (mmt) on perceived stress in individuals with multiple sclerosis (ms). methods: through a quasi-experimental design, forty patients in qazvin city in iran were selected by convenient sampling and then divided into two groups: experimental and control groups. after group assignment,...

conclusions this study showed that mbsr training can reduce mean depression, anxiety and stress scores in patients with ms. these findings suggest that mbsr is useful for psychological problems such as depression, anxiety and stress in patients with ms. patients and methods this randomized controlled clinical trial was performed in 2013 in ahvaz ms society. forty eight patients were selected by...

background: recent studies have demonstrated controversial results and somewhat increased frequency of multiple  sclerosis  (ms). we reevaluated  the  files of  ms patients  from qom province of iran in order to investigate the epidemiology of the disease. methods:   demographic   and  clinical records  of  592  ms patients  were reviewed, which included; age, sex, date  of birth, marital and o...