RT journal article
T1 Fibromyalgia has a larger impact on physical health than on psychological health, yet both are markedly affected: The al-Ándalus project
A1 Segura Jiménez, Víctor
A1 Álvarez Gallardo, Inmaculada Concepción
A1 Carbonell Baeza, Ana
A1 Aparicio, Virginia Ariadna
A1 Ortega, Francisco Bartolomé
A1 Casimiro, Antonio J.
A1 Delgado Fernández, Manuel
A2 Didáctica de la Educación FísicaPlástica y Musical
K1 women
K1 tenderness
K1 impact of fibromyalgia
K1 health-related quality of life
K1 mental health
K1 cognitive performance
AB 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.
PB Elsevier
SN 0049-0172
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30640
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30640
LA eng
NO We acknowledge Elsevier and the Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism for publishing our scientific article: Segura-Jiménez, V., Álvarez-Gallardo, I. C., Carbonell-Baeza, A., Aparicio, V. A., Ortega, F. B., Casimiro, A. J., & Delgado-Fernández, M. (2015). Fibromyalgia has a larger impact on physical health than on psychological health, yet both are markedly affected: The al-Ándalus project. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 44(5), 563-570. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SEMARTHRIT.2014.09.010
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026