The Study of Relationship Social Support and Psychological dimensions in Ms patients

Document Type : 78

Authors

• yahya hoseynzade firozabad
• mohammad saleh mohammad abad
• abdolaziz aflak seyr

Abstract

Background and Objective: MS is a chronic and destructive inflammatory diseasethat  has negative effect on psychological condition, interpersonal, family and social relationship  and  in  general,  on  psychological  well-being. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship social support and psychological profile ms patient
methods: In  this  descriptive-correlation  study,  120  MS  patients  have  been  selected by random sampling methodamong of those that admitted to the MS Society of shiraz. Data gathering was accomplished by two tests: Symptom CheckList-90- Revised (SCL-90-R) and Social Support Scale. Finally data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient  and  T-test  on  SPSS-17  software  and  p-value  less  than  0.05  considered  as significant.
Results: Results showed that 70.8% of MS patients had problems in somatic complaint and 69.1% in obsession, 63.3% in sensitivity, 73.3% in depression, 62.5% in anxiety, 54.1% in hostility, 66.6% in paranoid thoughts, 28.3% in phobia and 36.6% in psychosis. Correlations between social support with obsession, sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobia and paranoid thoughts were negatively significant. 
Conclusion: The range of psychological problems experienced by MS patients is more extensive and these problems have significant relationship with social support. Thus, attention to different dimensions of psychological health is necessary and social support-based interventions can be more effective.
Keywords: Ms, Social Support, SCL-90

Keywords

• Ms
• Social Support
• SCL-90

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