The impact of socioeconomic status on mental health and health-seeking behavior across race and ethnicity in a large multiple sclerosis cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychiatric symptoms are common in multiple sclerosis (MS) and may contribute to worse MS outcomes. Previous studies suggest the burden of symptoms may vary by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). Our objective was to expand upon this previous work and explore the associations between SES, race, and ethnicity, as predictors of psychiatric symptoms, mental health attitudes, and health-seeking behavior in patients with MS.

Methods

Persons with MS answered a national web-based survey including demographic characteristics (including race, ethnicity and measures of SES), mental health attitudes, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) scale, the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale 5-item version (MFIS-5), and the

SUBMITTER: Pimentel Maldonado DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9308106 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature