Mental health disorders in MS patients
Challenge
- Identify the population of MS patients with comorbid mental health conditions.
- Understand unmet mental health intervention and psychotherapy needs and impact on disease activity.
Solution
- We examined patients with MS and mental health diagnosis, medication or treatment.
- Identified patient and disease characteristics associated depression and anxiety related comorbidities.
MS patients
~80%
of MS patients had a comorbid mental health condition
Anxiety, depression, substance abuse
disorders were most frequently seen