Research Article
The Incidence of Euphoria in Multiple Sclerosis: Artefact of Measure
Table 5
Previous and current frequencies of euphoria sclerotica, eutonia sclerotica, and spes sclerotica among MS participants and healthy controls.
| | Frequency | MS | HC | | Euphoria sclerotica (positive mood) | Eutonia sclerotica (physical well-being/unawareness of physical deficit) | Spes sclerotica (optimism) | Euphoria sclerotica (positive mood) | Eutonia sclerotica (physical well-being/unawareness of physical deficit) | Spes sclerotica
(optimism) |
| | Classical measure | | | | | | | | Previous findings | 63% [7] () | 84% [7] () | 84% [7] () | — | — | — | | 53.6% [8] () | 50% [8] () | 50% [8] () | — | — | — | | Current findings | | | | | | |
| | Contemporary measure | | | | | | | | Previous findings | 4.7% [9] () | — | — | — | — | — | | 13% [10] () | — | — | 0% () | — | — | | 14.6% [11] () | | | 0% () | | | | Current findings | | — | — | | — | — |
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Note. The findings of this study are presented in bold font.
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