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Some Aspects Of The Feeling Of Happiness In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

Kalina Drenska, Tihomir Drenski, Ara Kaprelyan, Ivan Dimitrov, Borislav Ivanov

Abstract

Happiness is an emotional state that reflects the positive feelings and satisfaction of life. We examined the subjective feeling of happiness with a questionnaire (MSQOL-54) including a self-assessment of happiness in 80 MS patients with and without accompanying diseases at an average age of 42.95 ± 10.39 years between 2002 and 2015. The results were processed statistically by correlation analysis. There were statistically significant positive correlations between both the self-assessments of the health status and the sense of happiness of MS patients, as well as between the impact on public activities and the sense of happiness of these patients. There were also statistically significant negative correlations between depression and the sense of hap-piness in MS patients as well as between health-related quality of life assessments and the feeling of happi-ness of these patients.

Keywords

multiple sclerosis, comorbidity, feeling of happiness, MSQOL-54

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14748/vmf.v7i0.6351

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