Domestic accidents in patients with multiple sclerosis: proposal and application of questionnaires for their detection
Abstract
Domestic accidents are an important topic as for different viewpoints: for the people that could be victim of them, for the health and economic systems. It could be imagined that people affected by neurological diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), could incur into domestic accidents more frequently than people in the general population.
Aim of the present work is to introduce a survey's questionnaire for registering occurrence and characteristics of domestic accidents in a population with particular features such as MS patients. In 2011, a first edition of this survey questionnaire was already proposed and then applied with a sample of MS patients (QuID). A subsequent newest version of the test (QuID-Il) has then been proposed, based on the information collected and on the limits showed by that first edition.
With this new version deepen information can be collected on the characteristics, the biological, environmental and behavioural risk factors for the occurrence of domestic accidents, and this could be useful in planning prevention programs.
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