The Communication of Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis: The Patients’ Perspective

Table 1

Patients’ sociodemographic and disease-related characteristics.

	Patients ()
Age at onset, median (IQ range)	30 (24–38)
Gender
Females, number (%)	101 (67.3)
Males, number (%)	49 (32.7)
Actual disease, number (%)
Clinically isolated syndrome	64 (42.7)
Multiple sclerosis	86 (57.3)
Other	0 (0.0)
MS centre location, number (%)
North of Italy	121 (80.7)
Centre of Italy	7 (4.7)
South of Italy	22 (14.7)
EDSS at the time of diagnosis, median (IQ range)	1.5 (1.0–2.0)
Time from the diagnosis, median (IQ range)	0 (0–40)

Defined by the 2011 diagnostic criteria.