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Yára Dadalti Fragoso1, Erika Oliveira da Silva, Alessandro Finkelsztejn
1Neurology Department, Universidade Metropolitana de Santos, Santos SP, Brazil. yara@bsnet.com.br
Objective:
To assess the possible association of fatigue with self-esteem in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.
Method:
Thirty patients were prospectively assessed. None of them presented moderate or severe depression or anxiety and their degree of disability was low (EDSS
Results:
Low self-esteem correlated with fatigue (p=0.01), but not with any other variables, such as age, gender, EDSS, MS duration, number of relapses, mild depression and/or anxiety.
Conclusion:
Greater severity of fatigue in MS correlates with low self-esteem, thus suggesting that this chronic complaint that affects so many patients can interfere with the way in which they see and value themselves.
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