The Effect of an Educational Program on Fatigue Level Among Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Dalia Ibrahem Mustafa Abdel-Azem, Nawal Abdel Monem Fouad, Afaf Ibrahim
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ABSTRACT
Background: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease that affect all aspects of the patients’ life causing multiple progressive symptoms; most common fatigue which leads to dependency of patients on their family for carrying out their daily routine activities.
Aim: The present study aims at evaluating the effect of an educational program on fatigue level among multiple sclerosis patients.
Design: A quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest was used.
Setting: the study was conducted in multiple sclerosis outpatient clinic in El-Kasr El-Eini University Hospital.
Sample: A convenient sample of (250) multiple sclerosis patients.
Tools: Two tools were used: first tool was Structured MS patient dietary knowledge questionnaire, second tool was The Arabic Version of Modified Fatigue Impact Scale.
Results: Showed a highly statistical negative correlation between dietary knowledge and cognitive, psychosocial fatigue among MS patients in pre, post and 3 months after implementation of the program.
Conclusions: The results of this study indicated that MS patients' dietary knowledge improved after application of the educational program as well as there was a decline in MS patients' fatigue level with statically significance differences between pre, post and 3 months after application of the program.
Recommendation: Dissemination of dietary knowledge program among other multiple sclerosis patients.
Keywords: Multiple sclerosis patients, dietary knowledge, fatigue.