Efficacy of Attention Rehabilitation in Decreasing Selective Attention and Sustained Attention Deficits in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Patients

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive disease of the CNS that is characterized by widespread lesions in the brain and spinal cord. Cognitive impairment is a common concomitant of MS.  MS often affects attentional complex tasks Such as, Selective and Sustained Attention. Few study investigated on efficacy of attention rehabilitation for decrease of attention deficits in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Present study investigated the efficacy attention rehabilitation for decrease of Selective attention   and Sustained attention deficits in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients.
 
Method: The study was conducted in single - Subject designs with A/B model and follow- up. Six Secondary Progressive MS (SPMS) selected with adjective sample. Attention various include, selective and sustained attention that evalued at various stages baseline, inventory and follow-up using Continues Performance
 
Test (CPT) and Stroop Test. Attention rehabilitation program was don with flash cart and pen–paper that composed of structured tasks. Participants received attention rehabilitation sessions three a week over 21 sessions. Total time training was about 45 minutes. The required data were analyzed via visual analysis, decrease mean percentage and d’ Cohen effect size.
Results: All case showed, improvement in selective attention and sustained attention. Decrease mean percentages and effect sizes were high for all measures.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that, attention rehabilitation decrease selective attention and sustained attention deficits in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients

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  • Receive Date: 14 December 2015
  • Accept Date: 14 December 2015

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