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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

JUNIO 2015 N° 5 Volumen 18

Quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients on rehabilitation treatment

Section: Health and quality of life

How to quote

Contreras Garrido I. Calidad de vida en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple en tratamiento rehabilitador. Metas Enferm jun 2015; 18(5): 61-67.

Authors

Irene Contreras Garrido

Position

Enfermera. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid.

Contact address

Irene Contreras Garrido C/ Jaén, 18. 28522 Rivas Vaciamadrid (Madrid).

Contact email: irenecontrerasgarrido@hotmail.com

Abstract

Objective: to describe the best evidence available on the efficacy of rehabilitation treatment in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Method: a search has been conducted in the bibliographic databases PubMed, Cinahl and Cuiden Plus. The terms included in the search were: “Multiple Sclerosis”, “hospitalization”, “ambulatory care” and “rehabilitation”. In order to make the search more specific, various limits were applied to the databases: 1) Date of publication of the studies (from 2003 to current date),  2) language of publication (Spanish, English and French), 3) age (> 18 years), 4) study population with confirmed MS diagnosis, and 5) type of article (randomized clinical trials). Studies were selected based on their title and abstract, and the complete text was obtained for a more detailed analysis.
Results: the search in different electronic databases resulted in 7,171 documents; once applied the search limits, 278 articles were obtained. After implementing the inclusion criteria, 59 articles were left as included, which were assessed using the CASPe tool for clinical trials.  
Discussion and conclusions: it is worth highlighting that MD rehabilitation treatment can improve the quality of life in MS patients, according to clinical trials included in this review. However, there are not always statistically significant differences in its favour. Moreover, the efficacy of complementary treatments has been observed, which might improve quality of life, but have not been sufficiently studied so far. Therefore, it would be interesting to include complementary therapies in rehabilitation treatments for patients with SM, in order to measure their effect.

Keywords:

Multiple Sclerosis; quality of life; rehabilitation treatmentnarrative review

Versión en Español

Título:

Calidad de vida en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple en tratamiento rehabilitador