Assessment of Quality of Life and Psychological Problems in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

• Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life-54 (MSQOL-54) Can be considered as the most known disease-specific instrument for the evaluation of quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). It was developed to combine generic quality of life aspects of the SF-36 with MS-targeted dimensions and ratings for the overall quality of life. Therefore, 18 disease-specific items were added to the original 36 items of the SF-36. The 54 items are divided into 12 multi-item and 2 single-item scales. The MSQOL-54 items are transformed linearly to 0-100 scores and final scores are obtained by averaging items within the scales