Epidemiology of fibromyalgia

Neumann, Lily; Buskila, Dan

doi:10.1007/s11916-003-0035-z

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“…20 The influence of age on the exercise response has important implications in the management of fibromyalgia because the prevalence of fibromyalgia increases with age. 1 This study also established that baseline pain threshold predicted exercise-induced changes in both pain threshold and pain ratings. Specifically, persons with lower pain thresholds during the first experimental pain test were more likely to experience a postexercise decrease in pain compared with subjects who had higher baseline pain thresholds.…”

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“…The prevalence of fibromyalgia is estimated to be as high as 5% of the general population, with the majority of persons being women. 1 The management of fibromyalgia is difficult because many patients do not respond to treatment. For example, only 30% to 50% of patients experience significant improvement with medication therapy, 2 indicating the need to identify alternative therapies for pain relief.…”

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Pain Perception After Isometric Exercise in Women With Fibromyalgia

Bement¹,

Weyer²,

Hartley³

et al. 2011

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Pain Perception After Isometric Exercise in Women With Fibromyalgia

Bement¹,

Weyer²,

Hartley³

et al. 2011

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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“…These findings shed light on the needs of these patients and on the caregiving provided by their spouses. These findings are important because approximately two to five percent of the population suffer from fibromyalgia, with the syndrome disproportionately affecting women [34][35][36].…”

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Role Strains and Mood in Husbands of Women with Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Test of the Stress Process Model

Bigatti¹,

Lydon²,

Brothers³

2008

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Spouses of patients experience role strains as a result of informal caregiving, which has been associated with mood in numerous research studies. However, most research is on female caregivers, and little is known about the experience of male spouses, or of the caregiving provided to fibromyalgia patients. The Stress Process Model was used to examine mediators and moderators of the relation between role strain and mood among 135 husbands of women with fibromyalgia. Results indicated that the more activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living performed by the husband, the greater the role strain. Role strain was associated with worse mood. A test of the Stress Process Model supported a partial mediation model, where social support and emotion-focused coping partially mediated the relation between role strain and mood. No evidence was found for a moderation model or for problem-focused coping as a mediator. Our research suggests significant impairment and caregiving needs among this patient population, which in turn relates to the mood of the husband who is also an informal caregiver. Our findings also support the Stress Process Model in explaining the complexity of caregiving effects. The results of the study suggest avenues for intervention for individuals strained by their partners' illness.Spouses of chronically ill individuals have poorer mental health than comparison groups and the general population [1,2]. Spouses may be affected because the illness may require informal caregiving, including assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs; such as toileting, dressing), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs; such as shopping), and taking over responsibilities that the patient can no longer perform (such as cleaning, cooking). These caregiving responsibilities may interfere with spouses' abilities to perform other roles, resulting in role strains.Role strains, experienced daily by most individuals, are defined as the difficulties felt by individuals who have multiple roles with accompanying obligations [3]. For caregivers, the additional responsibility of helping a patient with a health condition may divert much needed resources from the other roles currently fulfilled by the individual, causing role strain. Roles typically examined for strain include work, domestic environment, sexual relations, family relations, and social relations. Of the employed caregiving husbands in a national study of frail elderly, 32% reported working fewer hours, 28% indicated they rearranged their schedule, and 24% took time off without pay because of their wives' illness [4]. In the domestic environment, husbands report an increase in the amount of time spent on household chores as a direct result of their wives' illness or disability [5]. A chronic illness may affect the couple's sexual relations as well. For example, patients with a rheumatic disease listed pain or weakness, fatigue, and lack of interest as the top *Address correspondence to this author at the IUPUI, Department of P...

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“…2,3 These high prevalence rates of fibromyalgia are also similar in the USA and Europe. [4][5][6] There are few criteria for making a diagnosis of fibromyalgia 7,8 however, some argues that those criteria are inaccurate and patients are over diagnosed by physicians. 9 As a result, there is no gold standard available for diagnosis and treatment for fibromyalgia.…”

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Experiences of women living with fibromyalgia: an exploratory study of their information needs and preferences

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Women living with fibromyalgia consistently report experiencing a change in their lives in terms of stigma, inability to work, isolation from society and difficulty in managing their illness. Lack of understanding and knowledge about their disease has been linked to compromised health and quality of life. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of information use of women living with fibromyalgia. A descriptive phenomenology was used for this study. Participants were identified through gatekeepers for women living with fibromyalgia across Canada. Data was collected via taperecorded interviews. The study was conducted in Canada between 2009-2010. Ten women (18 or older) participated in the research. Three essential themes emerged from the analysis that were vital to understand the unique experiences of women: i) understanding the need for information required to live with fibromyalgia, ii) struggling to meet vital and fundamental information needs and iii) transforming themselves to improve health and quality of life. Women living with fibromyalgia have vital and specific information needs and struggle to find and access appropriate information. They use diverse strategies in overcoming some of the challenges in accessing information. Most significantly, women draw on the information to make changes and to begin to coordinate their lives to live with fibromyalgia. For women living with fibromyalgia, the phenomenon of information use has a significant effect on their lives. Healthcare providers are perceived as an important source of information and need to be better informed, more prepared and dedicated to assisting women with their information needs.

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Epidemiology of fibromyalgia

Cited by 242 publications

References 45 publications

Pain Perception After Isometric Exercise in Women With Fibromyalgia

Pain Perception After Isometric Exercise in Women With Fibromyalgia

Role Strains and Mood in Husbands of Women with Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Test of the Stress Process Model

Experiences of women living with fibromyalgia: an exploratory study of their information needs and preferences

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