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Prosody comprehension in Persian patients with multiple sclerosis in Tehran, 2021
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Arezoo Saffarian *   , Nahid Jalilevand , Fatemeh Mehrpour , Kosar Taghizadeh |
| School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences |
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Introduction: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is associated with a range of cognitive, sensory-motor, visual, psychological, social, and emotional symptoms. One of the challenging issues in communication is the comprehension of emotions. Impairment in the ability to comprehend the emotions of others can disrupt effective communication. Although most cases of multiple sclerosis (MS) are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40, an increased incidence of MS in elderly individuals aged 50 and older has been reported, and advancing age in these patients is associated with greater deficits in emotional perception. However, given the limited studies conducted in this area, this research was designed to investigate prosody comprehension in Persian-speaking patients with MS.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study involved 15 individuals (9 women and 6 men) with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) with a mean age of 43.7 years, and 15 neurologically healthy individuals (8 women and 7 men) serving as the control group with a mean age of 41.27 years, matched for age, gender, and education with the patient group. The tests used included the Persian version of the P-MoCA, the Persian version of the GDS, and four subtests from the Persian version of the speech pitch perception test.
Findings: The results indicated significant differences between the two groups in the subtests of emotional discrimination, naming antonyms, naming emotional, and the overall score of the speech perception test (P<0.05). However, there was no significant difference between the two groups in the subtest of linguistic discrimination (P=0.073). No significant differences were observed in the mean scores of the GDS and P-MoCA tests between the two groups (P>0.05). Additionally, there was no significant correlation between the P-MoCA scores and GDS scores with the subtest scores and the overall score of pitch perception (P>0.05).
Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that patients with RRMS do not exhibit deficits in linguistic perception. Linguistic prosody is related to the linguistic features of speech. However, they demonstrated impairments in emotional perception, likely due to the involvement of regions responsible for emotion comprehension in these patients. It is noteworthy that this impairment in emotional perception was not attributed to cognitive decline or depression.
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| Keywords: prosody comprehension, multiple sclerosis, emotions. |
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Type of Study: Original research |
Subject:
geriatric rehabilitation
Received: 2024/09/7 | Accepted: 2024/08/31 | Published: 2024/08/31
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