Quality of Life Measures in Fibromyalgia

Gusi, N.; Olivares, Pedro R.; Carmelo Adsuar, J.; Paice, A.; Tomas-Carus, P.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_231

N. Gusi³,
Pedro R. Olivares³,
J. Carmelo Adsuar³,
A. Paice⁴ &
…
P. Tomas-Carus⁵

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Abstract:

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic, widespread and painful disorder of affecting approximately 2–3% of the general population, with an approximately 90% female preponderance. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcome assessment is crucial in patients with FM because of their multiple symptoms, which include chronic pain, fatigue, weakness, hyperalgesia, secondary depression and allodynia. These can produce substantial work disability and disruptions in quality of life, with impaired social and family functioning. The diverse symptomatology of patients with FM may be assessed holistically using HRQoL questionnaires. These questionnaires can be classified into generic measures and disease-specific measures. SF-36 and EQ-5D represent the generic tools most commonly used in FM studies, but other questionnaires include the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), Health Utilities Index (HUI) and Quality of Well Being Index (QWB). The fibromyalgia-specific instruments most commonly used are the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) and FibroFatigue Scale (FFS). To date, few cost-utility analyses exist. Examples include EQ-5D and SF-6D. Using these questionnaires it has been shown that patients with FM perform worse than other chronic pain patients, such as those with rheumatoid arthritis and chronic back pain, specifically when vitality, bodily pain, mental health, social functioning, mobility, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression scores were analyzed. The impact of illness, adjusted for co-morbidities, increased in younger adults but the symptomatology decreased with age.

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Abbreviations

ACR:: American College of Rheumatology
AIMS:: arthritis impact measurement scales
CFS:: chronic fatigue syndrome
EQ-5D:: Euroqol five item Questionnaire
EQ-5D VAS:: The EQ-5D Visual Analogue Scale
FFS:: the fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome rating scale
FIQ:: The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire
FM:: Fibromyalgia
HAQ:: Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire
NHP:: Nottingham Health Profile
QALYs:: quality-adjusted life-years
QWB:: quality of well being index
HRQoL:: health-related quality of life
HUI:: the health utilities index
15-D:: the health state descriptive system questionnaire
SF-36:: Short Form Health Survey questionnaire with 36 questions
SF-6D:: 6-item Short Form Health Survey Questionnaire
SIP:: sickness impact profile

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Department of Sports and Health, University of Evora, Nashville, Portugal
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Gusi, N., Olivares, P.R., Carmelo Adsuar, J., Paice, A., Tomas-Carus, P. (2010). Quality of Life Measures in Fibromyalgia. In: Preedy, V.R., Watson, R.R. (eds) Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_231

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