| | Educational content | General information about MS (MS definition, different types of MS, MS risk factors, MS symptoms, MS complications, and MS and pregnancy), MS patient’s lifestyle (nutrition, exercise, and stress management), symptoms management (muscle weaknesses, movement problems, vision problems, sensory symptoms, speech disorders, urinary dysfunction, cognitive disorders, fatigue, depression, sexual disorders, facial muscle spasms, temperature sensitivity, headache and dizziness, electric shock feeling in the body, attack symptoms, myokymia, trigeminal neuralgia), MS treatment (different types of MS treatments, MS medications, and side effects), and physical environment and place of residence (suitable place of residence and suitable weather for the patient) |
| | Individual data elements | Name, surname, age, marital status, national ID number, sex, and contact number |
| | Clinical data elements | History of MS among first degree relatives, onset of the first MS symptoms, date of MS diagnosis, number of hospital admissions for attacks, walking problems (asking patients if they had any problem with walking), MS medications used over the past five years, year of medication initiation, year of medication discontinuation, drug allergy, and cause of drug discontinuation |
| | Application functions | Describing patient general condition, (describing current symptoms and details ofan attack), medication time reminder, reminders for medications that are close to run out, describing current medications and their doses, consulting a physician by sending messages, completing the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale bythepatient andcalculating its score, assessing the severity of fatigue and calculating the score of the Fatigue Severity Scale, sending messages to the patient by her/his physician, searching patient information by physician, and introducing MS care centers. |
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