“I battle pain every single day”: Pain-related illness intrusiveness among persons with multiple sclerosis.

This study aimed to determine the extent to which PwMS experience pain as a particularly intrusive problem among the totality of their experience of MS-related challenges and to examine how cognitive and affective factors, including resiliency, are associated with PwMS’s pain-related illness intrusiveness. Method: Participants (N = 161) were PwMS with at least mild pain who were recruited through the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis Registry for this cross-sectional study. Participants completed the Illness Intrusiveness Ratings Scale twice regarding their (a) MS and (b) pain. Multiple regression analyses were run to evaluate the relationship between MS- and pain-related illness intrusiveness, as well as the cognitive and affective predictors of the latter. Results: Controlling for level of disease severity, pain-related illness intrusiveness was a significant predictor of MS-related illness intrusiveness (p
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research