@misc{10498/30640,
year = {2015},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30640},
abstract = {Objectives: To characterize a representative sample of fibromyalgia women based on a set of relevant factors known to be related to this disease. To distinguish specific factors of the disease from other symptoms that might also exist in non-fibromyalgia women. To test whether fibromyalgia affects more severely physical or psychological outcomes.
Methods: A total of 459 fibromyalgia women vs. 214 non-fibromyalgia (control) women from southern Spain (Andalusia) took part in this cross-sectional study. Several instruments were used to assess tenderness, impact of fibromyalgia, fatigue, health-related quality of life, mental health and cognitive performance.
Results: Overall, fibromyalgia women showed a worse status in pain, fatigue, health-related quality of life, depression and anxiety than controls (P<0.01). In general, the observed associations presented very large effect sizes (Cohen’s d from ~1 to ~5.5). No differences between fibromyalgia and controls were observed in cognitive and memory performance, except for delayed recall, but the observed effect size was low (~0.25). The effect size observed for the global physical component (~3.3) was larger than that for the global psychological component (~1.3), all P<0.001.
Conclusions: Our results reinforce the understanding of fibromyalgia as a polysymptomatic distress condition with pain as its main symptom. Our findings support that fibromyalgia seems to have a greater impact on physical than on psychological outcomes, though both are largely affected.},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {women},
keywords = {tenderness},
keywords = {impact of fibromyalgia},
keywords = {health-related quality of life},
keywords = {mental health},
keywords = {cognitive performance},
title = {Fibromyalgia has a larger impact on physical health than on psychological health, yet both are markedly affected: The al-Ándalus project},
doi = {10.1016/J.SEMARTHRIT.2014.09.010},
author = {Segura Jiménez, Víctor and Álvarez Gallardo, Inmaculada Concepción and Carbonell Baeza, Ana and Aparicio, Virginia Ariadna and Ortega, Francisco Bartolomé and Casimiro, Antonio J. and Delgado Fernández, Manuel},
}