Family planning in people with multiple sclerosis: a plain language summary.
Neurodegener Dis Manag
; 12(1): 9-14, 2022 02.
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ABSTRACT
What is this summary about? This is a plain language summary of an article originally published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology. People with multiple sclerosis (often shortened to MS) may have concerns about pregnancy and fertility. To understand more about these concerns, 332 people with MS in the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain took a survey with questions about how they made family planning decisions. What were the results? Most of the survey participants (around 82%) were women. The survey found that people with MS were less likely to have children than people without MS. Over half (56%) of people with MS said the disease impacted their family planning decisions in some way, almost one quarter (22%) significantly changed their plans for the timing of their pregnancy or number of children, and 14% decided against having children. For almost 4 out of 5 (81%) people with MS the main source of family planning information was healthcare professionals. What do the results of the study mean? Overall, MS significantly impacted patients' decisions about family planning.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Serviços de Planejamento Familiar
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Esclerose Múltipla
Limite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Neurodegener Dis Manag
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article
País de afiliação:
Itália