STUDY THE EFFECT OF PERFORMANCE ROY ADAPTATION MODEL ON INTENSITY AND EFFECTS OF FATIGUE IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS

Fatigue is a common symptom of multiple sclerosis, and can limit a person's daily activities. It is possible to have Health achievement in chronic disease by establishing compatibility on various dimension of the patient's existence. One of the most effective and practical templates in nursing, which is more significant in this topic, is Roy Adaptation model. Therefore this study performed with the purpose of studying the effect of performance care plan, based on the Roy Adaptation Model on intensity, and effects of fatigue on multiple sclerosis patients of MS Association of Urmia in 2015.
In this study, 80 patients with multiple sclerosis of inclusion criteria, selected randomly and divided into two groups of 40 subjects as intervention and control group respectedly. The data collected tool in this study was fatigue severity’s standard questionnaire, which was completed in both groups before and after the intervention. The intervention was consisted of 6 sessions, 2 general education sessions and 4 care programs, based on maladaptive behavior sessions. After two months, a post-test was performed to find the results. For descriptive statistics Spss software was used in order to find the characteristics of the study population, and for non-parametric quantitative data, Mann-Whitney was used. A t-test was used for parametric quantitative data.
The results of this study showed that before of intervention, there was no significant differences in the mean number fatigue severity between the two groups. Mean number of fatigue severity decreased after the care programs, based on the Roy adaptation model, in the intervention group, than the control group, and this reduction was statistically significant. (P Implementation of the Roy Adaptation Model reduces fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis. Therefore, it is recommended that nurses can use from this low cost model in order to reduce fatigue and complications.