Predictors of employment status and work absenteeism in relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Predictors of employment status and work absenteeism in relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis - MS Employment study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON47448

Enrollment

350

Registered

2014-02-12

Start date

2014-04-08

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-04-29

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Conditions

MS Multiple Sclerosis

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: -Patients with a diagnosis of relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis according to the McDonald criteria 2010 and healthy controls not diagnosed with any neurological, psychiatric or other chronic disorder -18 years or older -currently employed or within 3 years since their last employment

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: -co morbid psychiatric or neurological disorders -substance abuse -MS relapse within 1 month prior to the study visit -unable to speak and/or read Dutch -neurological impairment that might interfere with cognitive testing (e.g. upper limb weakness, dysarthria, vision worse than 20/70)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The outcome variables include changes in employment status (i.e. stable versus deteriorated) and work absenteeism (i.e. days missed from work during a specified period) from baseline to endpoint	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The secondary study parameters include the predictor variables, i.e. cognitive performance and cognitive complaints, physical ability, psychological functioning (i.e. anxiety, depression, psychosocial stress, quality of life, fatigue, empathy, personality traits and coping strategies), gene set data, polygenetic risk score, and type of immunomodulatory treatment.	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results