Effectiveness of Structured Educational Symptoms Management Program upon Muscle Strength for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

To identify the effectiveness of structured educational symptoms management program on the muscle strength for patients with multiple sclerosis. Quantitative quasi-experimental designed was selected to obtain the objective of the current study, the out patients consultation clinic for multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Middle Euphrates Neuroscience Center at AL-Najaf City chose functionally as a proper area to carry out this study, special form prepared to collect the data which contains two parts (demographical characteristics and Muscle Strength Grading Scale (Oxford Scale)) was used to determine the level of muscle strength. Purposive sample from (61) patients with MS were distinguished to participate in the study, they divided to two groups (30) patients as control group and (31) patients assigned as experimental group. The results shows that the highest percentage of participate were female (59%), between age group the (31–40) years, were with primary school (37.7%), (80.3%) were married. The first assessment (pretest) of patients shows deterioration in muscle strength for both experimental and control group, while posttest and second posttest shows an improvements in muscle strength for experimental group after applying of structured symptoms management educational program.