The effect of self-care education on the performance of Multiple Sclerosis patients: a randomised control trial

MS is a chronic disease of the central nervous system myelin damage Khvdaymyvn the immune system. Several parts of the nervous system and sensory and motor function without myelin is affected between the ages of 40-20 years of age, in women occurs twice that of men. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of self-care education on the performance of MS patients.
This study was a randomized clinical trial on 90 patients with MS, the city of Ardabil in 1394 was carried out using randomly into control and intervention groups. Before the intervention, the patients by researcher made questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha coefficient 98/0 Czech lists for observation of how MS patients, for patients in both the intervention and control groups was completed. In the intervention group, self-care education for 6 sessions, each session was 60 minutes. After the intervention for patients in both groups was completed questionnaire again. Data using statistical software version 24 and descriptive and analytical tests were analyzed. (SPSS)
intervention group over time showed that in case group compared to the control group were significantly different P= (0/0001) However, in the control group, no significant difference was observed in terms of performance over time P = (0/07).
Results of this study showed that self-care education to improve the performance of MS patients. So self-care education can be an effective intervention for improving the performance of MS patients used.