[The association of psychological gender characteristics with quality of life and clinical aspects in patients with multiple sclerosis]. / Sviaz' gendernykh osobennostei patsientov s rasseiannym sklerozom s kachestvom zhizni i klinicheskimi osobennostiami zabolevaniia.

AIM: To study the association between psychological gender characteristics and illness duration, severity of disability, asthenia, depression, anxiety and quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS). MATERIAL AND METHODS: One hundred patients (62 females and 38 males) with multiple sclerosis were studied. The following methods were used: The Mini-Mental State Examination, The Bem Sex Role Inventory adapted in Russia, The Expanded Disability Status Scale, The Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20, The Beck Depression Inventory, The Spilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, The Short Form-36 (The Life Quality Questionnaire). RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The majority of patients had an androgynous type of psychological gender, some of patients were feminine. It was shown that there was an association between the number of feminine and masculine traits and MS duration, worsening of disability characteristics and life quality, increase in asthenia, depression and anxiety.

[The effect of psychological gender on adherence to immunomodulatory therapy in patients with multiple sclerosis]. / Vliianie gendera bol'nykh rasseiannym sklerozom na priverzhennost' immunomoduliruiushchei terapii.

AIM: To study the association between psychological gender and adherence to immunomodulatory therapy in patients with multiple sclerosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Thirty-four patients (25 women and 9 men) with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis were examined. The following methods were used: MMSE, The Bem Sex Role Inventory adapted in Russia, Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. During three months patients reported the first and the last immunomodulator injections dates from every new pack. Then the patients' self-reports systematization and analysis were performed, drug-taking compliance and timing compliance were calculated. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Twenty-eight patients had an androgynous type of psychological gender and six persons were feminine. The association was determined between high compliance and such psychological gender peculiarities as a significantly large number of feminine traits than masculine ones and the low number of masculine characteristics in men.