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Impact of Multiple Sclerosis From the Viewpoint of the Patients and Their Caregivers

CompletedN/A

Sponsor: Rennes University Hospital

Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis

Interventions: to develop standardized questionnaires

Countries: France

Patients with chronic illness and their relatives have exhaustive and specific experience of healthcare and the health service.These unique experiences must be taken into account for quality of care management assessment. MS affects young patients whose illness and level of disability will worsen throughout their lives. Half the patients living with MS require a natural (non professional) caregiver's support and this level of investment increases with the degree of disability. No dedicated tools for patients living with MS and their caregivers are currently available to assess their experience of the quality of care management.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to —

Healthy volunteers: No

Study type: OBSERVATIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

For the patients the criteria were :

to be 1) aged 18 years or older, 2) diagnosed with any form of definitivee MS according to the McDonald criteria, excluding clinically isolated syndrome, and 3) fluent in the French language.

For their caregivers, the criteria were to be 1) aged 18 years or older, 2) designated by the patient as a natural caregiver (i.e. noninstitutional relative/person most closely involved in the decisions linked to the disease), 3) fluent in the French language, and 4) free from MS. All patients and caregivers gave their written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Caregivers and patients incapable of understanding the proposed procedure and the questionnaire

Locations (1)

Rennes, France