Is reduced health-related quality of life a primary manifestation of fibromyalgia? A comparative study with Rheumatoid arthritis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21579740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carmen M Galvez-Sánchez (0000-0002-1927-0292, Universidad de Jaén, corresponding author), Stefan Duschek (0000-0002-9082-0154, Department of Psychology, UMIT TIROL—University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria), Gustavo A Reyes del Paso (0000-0002-2188-8673, Universidad de Jaén) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-535 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychology & Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-0446 • E-ISSN: 1476-8321 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08870446.2022.2085705 |
| PMID | 35694814 |
| OpenAlex | W4282916904 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 76 |
BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic pain condition associated with a significant reduction in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study compared the different components of HRQoL between FMS and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, and evaluated the relationships between HRQoL and clinical and emotional factors in FMS and RA patients. METHOD: = 67) participated in the study. HRQoL was assessed by the SF-36 survey. Associations between HRQoL and symptom severity were assessed by correlation and multiple linear regression analyses. RESULTS: FMS patients displayed lower values for all SF-36 variables than RA patients and healthy participants, while RA patients showed lower values for all SF-36 variables than healthy participants. These group differences persisted after statistically controlling for demographic, clinical and emotional variables. Clinical and emotional factors were inversely associated with SF-36 scores in the overall FMS + RA sample. Depression and fatigue were the strongest negative predictors. However, after the statistical control of the effect of diagnosis (FMS vs. RA) in the regression analysis, most of the associations disappear. CONCLUSIONS: The fact that group differences in HRQoL remained highly significant after statistically controlling of group differences in clinical symptom severity, and that associations between clinical symptoms and HRQoL disappear when the type of diagnosis was considered in the regression analysis, suggest that impairment of HRQoL could be considered a primary feature of FMS
Disease · Fibromyalgia · Fibromyalgia syndrome · Health related quality of life · Physical therapy · Rheumatoid arthritis · Clinical Psychology · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Internal Medicine
Health complaints, stress, and distress
Rheumatoid arthritis
The american college of rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia
The McGill Pain Questionnaire
The Fatigue Severity Scale
The American College of Rheumatology Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia and Measurement of Symptom Severity
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
Daily Affect Relations in Fibromyalgia Patients Reveal Positive Affective Disturbance
Slowly Repeated Evoked Pain as a Marker of Central Sensitization in Fibromyalgia
Patients’ Perceptions of Health Related Quality of Life in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Chronic Low Back Pain
Association of different levels of depressive symptoms with symptomatology, overall disease severity, and quality of life in women with fibromyalgia
Pain catastrophizing mediates the negative influence of pain and trait-anxiety on health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |