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Sparaco M, Miele G, Abbadessa G, et al. Pain, quality of life, and religiosity in people with multiple sclerosis. Neurol Sci. 2021;doi: 10.1007/s10072-021-05759-1.
Sparaco, M., Miele, G., Abbadessa, G., Ippolito, D., Trojsi, F., Lavorgna, L., & Bonavita, S. (2021). Pain, quality of life, and religiosity in people with multiple sclerosis. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05759-1
Sparaco, Maddalena, et al. "Pain, quality of life, and religiosity in people with multiple sclerosis." Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology vol. (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05759-1
Sparaco M, Miele G, Abbadessa G, Ippolito D, Trojsi F, Lavorgna L, Bonavita S. Pain, quality of life, and religiosity in people with multiple sclerosis. Neurol Sci. 2021 Nov 23; doi: 10.1007/s10072-021-05759-1. Epub 2021 Nov 23. PMID: 34816315.
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Neurol Sci. 2021 Nov 23; doi: 10.1007/s10072-021-05759-1. Epub 2021 Nov 23.

Pain, quality of life, and religiosity in people with multiple sclerosis.

Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology

Maddalena Sparaco, Giuseppina Miele, Gianmarco Abbadessa, Domenico Ippolito, Francesca Trojsi, Luigi Lavorgna, Simona Bonavita

Affiliations

  1. Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Piazza Miraglia, 2, 80138, Naples, Italy.
  2. Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Piazza Miraglia, 2, 80138, Naples, Italy. [email protected].

PMID: 34816315 DOI: 10.1007/s10072-021-05759-1

Abstract

PURPOSE: To investigate in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, the relationship between pain and religiosity and to determine whether distinct dimensions of religiosity were associated with quality of life.

METHODS: MS patients during clinical follow-up filled out the visual analogue scale for pain (VAS), the Mc Gill questionnaire (McGQ), the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), and the religious attitude scale (RAS), and expanded disability status scale (EDSS) was assessed.

RESULTS: Ninety-two MS patients were enrolled, only two declined. There was a negative correlation between religious practice and faith and some domains of the SF-36 and a positive correlation between sensory, affective, and evaluative aspects of pain (at McGQ) and religious practices, and between evaluative aspects of pain (at McGQ) and faith. EDSS was significantly higher in practitioner believers compared to not practitioners.

CONCLUSIONS: More disabled MS patients, with worse quality of life, also due to physical pain, find a source of comfort in faith and religious practices. Pain is not relieved by prayer; therefore, we may guess that in MS the poor beneficial effect of religiosity and practice on pain perception may be linked to a structural/functional damage of neural circuits involved in reducing pain during prayer.

© 2021. Fondazione Società Italiana di Neurologia.

Keywords: Multiple sclerosis; Pain; Quality of life; Religiosity; Spirituality

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