Patterns of Objective and Subjective Burden of Informal Caregivers in Multiple Sclerosis

Figure 1

Informal caregiver objective burden (informal care time (ICT)): (a) scatterplots of the correlation between EDSS score and ICT. White dots signify that patient’s Dysexecutive questionnaire score is over 75th percentile (otherwise dark dots), (b) ICT-sub activities and formal care time (FCT) as a function of EDSS. ADL = Activities of Daily Living; IADL = Instrumental Activities of Daily Living; ST = Supervision Time, and (c) scatterplots of the correlation between MS duration and ICT. White dots specify fast progressors (i.e., patients with a rapid disability course identified in the Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score [9, 13] table over the 8th decile) and dark dots specify otherwise.

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