Social Network Characteristics and Correlations With Cognitive, Psychosocial, and Speech Function and Communication Participation for Adults With Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study.

Purpose: This cross-sectional observational pilot study investigated egocentric social networks for 10 paired sex- and age-matched adults with and without multiple sclerosis (MS). This study also investigated the relationship between social network measures and various disease factors associated wit...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 163 - 178
Main Author:	Feenaughty, Lynda
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jan2023
Subjects:	Social network & psychology Social participation Memory Human research subjects Social networks Self-perception Age distribution Cross-sectional method Cognition Social isolation Informed consent (Medical law) Sex distribution Mental depression Communication Residential patterns Sociodemographic factors Adults Multiple sclerosis Pilot projects Scientific observation Intelligibility of speech Large-scale brain networks Mann Whitney U Test Surveys Comparative studies Neuropsychological tests Severity of illness index T-test (Statistics) Pearson correlation (Statistics) Independent living Descriptive statistics Fatigue (Physiology) Data analysis software
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