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A disease-specific self-report questionnaire that investigates six primary aspects of quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis: mobility, symptoms, emotional well-being, general contentment, thinking/fatigue, and family/social well-being. Five of the six subcategories (mobility, symptoms, emotional well-being, general contentment, and family/social well-being) comprise seven items (score range: 0–28); the subcategory thinking/fatigue comprises nine items (score range: 0–36).
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Preedy, V. R., & Watson, R. R. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of disease burdens and quality of life measures (Vol. 6, p. 4211). New York: Springer.
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Preedy, V.R. (2017). Functional Assessment Multiple Sclerosis. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_1809-2
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