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- Title
The Experience of Persons With Multiple Sclerosis Using MS INFoRm: An Interactive Fatigue Management Resource.
- Authors
Pétrin, Julie; Akbar, Nadine; Turpin, Karen; Smyth, Penelope; Finlayson, Marcia
- Abstract
We aimed to understand participants’ experiences with a self-guided fatigue management resource, Multiple Sclerosis: An Interactive Fatigue Management Resource (MS INFoRm), and the extent to which they found its contents relevant and useful to their daily lives. We recruited 35 persons with MS experiencing mild to moderate fatigue, provided them with MS INFoRm, and then conducted semistructured interviews 3 weeks and 3 months after they received the resource. Interpretive description guided the analysis process. Findings indicate that participants’ experience of using MS INFoRm could be understood as a process of change, influenced by their initial reactions to the resource. They reported experiencing a shift in knowledge, expectations, and behaviors with respect to fatigue self-management. These shifts led to multiple positive outcomes, including increased levels of self-confidence and improved quality of life. These findings suggest that MS INFoRm may have a place in the continuum of fatigue management interventions for people with MS.
- Subjects
CANADA; FATIGUE prevention; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MULTIPLE sclerosis; PATIENT education; PATIENTS; HEALTH self-care; INFORMATION resources; QUALITATIVE research; JUDGMENT sampling; THEMATIC analysis; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 5, p778
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049732317753584