Condition 1: Multiple sclerosis. Condition 2: Fatigue. Condition 3: Pain. Condition 4: Quality of life. Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system Malaise and fatigue Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal system
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: an educational package will be delivered to all patients. Then, two months telephone counseling and follow-up program will be conducted, lasting for 5-15 minutes by
two phone calls at third week addressing the importance of exercise, recommended activities, and advice on how to do them
two phone calls at forth week focusing on the role of stress in relapsing of symptoms and methods to decreasing stress
and during the second 4-week period, all the contents delivered within the first 4 weeks will be reviewed by making one follow-up call every week. Patients are free to call the researcher to receive
Treatment - Other
Intervention group: an educational package will be delivered to all patients. Then, two months telephone counseling and follow-up program will be conducted, lasting for 5-15 minutes by phone call agre
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Control group: Patient Control group will receive Educational package and routine care will receive.
Sponsors
Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: diagnosis of the disease by a neurologist; age over 18 years; history of the disease for at least 6 months; lack of relapse; lack of any other acute or chronic disease; mobile access; lack of any cognitive or psychological disorder. Exclusion criteria: no ability to continue participation for any reason (such as accident, death or moving to another city); hospitalization during the study period; lack of willingness to continue participation in study; no possibility of cell phone connection.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Fatigue. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Fatigue Severity Scale for patient with multiple sclerosis.;Pain. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Visual analog scale. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of life. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: MSQoL-54 questionnaire. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactDr. Ali bikmoradi
Department of health economics and management
Outcome results
None listed