Comparing Executive Function and Life orientation in Multiple Sclerosis Patients and Healthy People

Multiple sclerosis is one of the neuro-cognitive disorders that make a lot of cognitive and behavioral effects. This study was aimed to compare executive function and life orientation in multiple sclerosis patients and healthy people.
This study was descriptive and causal-comparative. Among all of the patients referred to Multiple Sclerosis Society of Iran, 100 patients with multiple sclerosis, at least 5 years of their disease passing, were chosen by sample randomization. For the comparison group, among relatives of patients with multiple sclerosis and multiple sclerosis society staff, 100 people were matched in terms of age, sex, education, occupation and marital status. Data was obtained by using executive function questionnaire (Nejati, 2013) and life orientation questionnaire (Scheier and Carver, 1985) and analyzed by T-test and MANOVA.
Healthy people have higher average in the scales of executive functions and life orientation, compared to patients with multiple sclerosis. There is a significant different between these groups (p>0/05).
Results showed that patients with multiple sclerosis compared to healthy people are of a lower position in the scales of executive functions. Life orientation scores in multiple sclerosis patients was lower than healthy people, and their attitude is toward the negative direction and pessimistic. According to the results, there is a need to pay more serious attention from specialists about intervention in the problems of this group.