investigating the relationship between self-care and performance improvement and reduction of complications of multiple sclerosis

Background: people with multiple sclerosis (pwms) are known to use a wide range of medicaland non-medical treatments. the present study is applied in terms of purpose and is descriptiveanalyticalin terms of method and uses a questionnaire . the aim of this study was to investigatethe relationship between self-care and performance improvement and reduction of mscomplications.method : the number of samples was calculated using cochran's formula, 384 people. thevalidity of the questionnaire questions was confirmed by professors and experts, its reliability wascalculated by cronbach's alpha test, 0.81. spss software was used to analyze the data obtainedfrom the questionnaire. kolmogorov-smirnov test showed that the data were abnormal. finally,the non-parametric spearman test was used to test the research hypotheses.results : the results of spearman test showed that there is a positive and significant relationshipbetween self-care and performance improvement and reduction of ms complications with 95%confidence level.conclusion: the final result of the study showed that self-care practice will improve patients andreduce the complications of ms.