Preparation of Abstract for the International Congress on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Sciences

Background and aims: Multiple sclerosis is one of the most common neurological disorders,which is associated with symptoms such as fatigue, mental problems, and movement limitation.Comorbidity is highly prevalent in MS throughout the disease course. Comorbid conditions, includingdepression, anxiety, hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, adversely affectthe quality of life. In this field, telemedicine and mobile health can have effective interventionby allowing long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention,monitoring, and remote admissions. Unfortunately, little attention has been paid tothis effectiveness. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of mobile health on the multiplesclerosis patient’s quality of life by controlling comorbidity.Method: In this systematic review, keywords: Multiple sclerosis, health-related quality of life,mobile health, comorbidity, and related words such as e-Health were searched in PubMed, GoogleScholar, science direct, Cochrane databases, and articles published between ۲۰۰۰-۲۰۲۲ thatincluded the mentioned keywords in title or abstract, were extracted. The search was done by ۲Ph.D. students and, in case of conflict, resolved by consensus. In case of similar results, duplicatearticles were removed and more comprehensive and original articles with higher citations wereselected.In this study, appropriate articles related to the impact of mobile health on the multiple sclerosispatient’s quality of life by controlling comorbidity met the inclusion criteria and were reviewed,and also articles in none English languages were not included. Due to the heterogeneity of thearticles and also the lack of quantitative data and systematic reviews, meta-analysis was not performed.The quality assessment of articles was done by the CASP checklist. This review is writtenbased on PRISMA criteria.Results: In this systematic review,۳۷۹ articles were extracted and after the screening, ۲۶۲ articleswere removed, and ۱۱۷ articles met the inclusion criteria, and after reviewing the full text, most ofthem referred to depression in MS patients, and finally۱۳articles were selected, which in total Andin short, they included two concepts, MS patient’s quality of life and the impact of mobile healthon quality of life and comorbidities such as depression, anxiety, etc. reviewing the articles showedthat psychiatric comorbidity and depression happened more than others comorbidities and useof mobile health can play a positive role in the prevention and control of this comorbidities andimproving the MS patient’s quality of life.Conclusion: Studies have shown that the use of mobile health can improve the quality of life byreducing the rate of depression and other comorbidities through meditation, yoga, diet, therapysessions, and patient remote monitoring along with drug therapy. According to the results of thisstudy, we suggest that in the field of improving the quality of life in the MS patient community,more efforts and research should be done according to the limitations of these patients for themore effective intervention of mobile health technology.

کلیدواژه ها:

Multiple sclerosis ، health-related quality of life ، mobile health ، Comorbidity