Top 10 word frequency rated scores and rankings for people with MS classified with the Expanded Status Disability Scale disability severity categories of no disability (n=118), mild disability (n=113), moderate disability (n=183) and severe disability (n=87)
| Word | No disability weighted score | No disability rank | Mild disability weighted score | Mild disability rank | Moderate disability weighted score | Moderate disability rank | Severe disability weighted score | Severe disability rank |
| covid | 1.65 | 1 | 2.00 | 1 | 1.72 | 1 | 1.95 | 1 |
| family | 1.09 | 2 | 0.95 | 2 | 0.78 | 2 | 1.32 | 2 |
| working | 0.95 | 3 | 0.43 | 12 | 0.45 | 9 | – | – |
| people | 0.78 | 4 | 0.49 | 11 | 0.71 | 3 | 0.58 | 5 |
| impact | 0.61 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| social | 0.61 | 6 | 0.53 | 9 | 0.48 | 6 | – | – |
| emotional | 0.56 | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| friends | 0.56 | 8 | 0.67 | 3 | 0.58 | 5 | 0.47 | 8 |
| lockdown | 0.56 | 9 | – | – | – | – | 0.58 | 4 |
| pandemic | 0.56 | 10 | 0.53 | 7 | 0.45 | 7 | 0.68 | 3 |
| visit | 0.56 | 11 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| going | 0.52 | 12 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| health | – | – | 0.63 | 4 | 0.43 | 11 | 0.53 | 7 |
| income | – | – | 0.63 | 5 | – | – | 0.42 | 10 |
| difficult | – | – | 0.53 | 6 | – | – | – | – |
| physical | – | – | 0.53 | 8 | – | – | – | – |
| children | – | – | 0.49 | 10 | – | – | – | – |
| unable | – | – | – | – | 0.68 | 4 | – | – |
| still | – | – | – | – | 0.45 | 8 | – | – |
| activities | – | – | – | – | 0.43 | 10 | – | – |
| husband | – | – | – | – | 0.43 | 12 | – | – |
| support | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.58 | 6 |
| closed | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.37 | 11 |
| isolated | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.37 | 12 |
Not included represented as a hyphen ‘–’.
MS, multiple sclerosis.