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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
GELVES-OSPINA, Melissa et al. Affective - behavioral symptoms and coping strategies of pain in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2017, vol.33, n.3, pp.285-295. ISSN 0120-5552.
Objective:
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome of chronic widespread pain associated with emotional and behavioral disorders. The purpose of the study was to identify the affective -behavioral symptoms and cognitive coping strategies involved in the perception of pain in patients with FM.
Material and methods:
A cross-sectional study was performed, with analysis of cases and controls, with a sample of two groups of women, in the city of Barranquilla (Colombia). Affective - behavioral symptoms and cognitive coping strategies were assessed in 34 patients with FM and 30 controls matched by age and educational level.
Results:
Our findings indicate greater affective and behavioral symptoms in patients with FM (anxiety, depression, insomnia, somatization and social dysfunction) (p<0.001) and a tendency to use social withdrawal as a coping strategy (p<0.005). According to factor analysis, pain perception and affective-behavioral symptoms were grouped in a single factor, demonstrating interdependence between variables.
Conclusions:
The affective-behavioral symptoms are associated with perception of pain and are relate to the use of passive strategies, and focused on emotion as a mechanism to confront the experience of pain.
Keywords : Pain; fibromyalgia; coping strategies; affective symptoms; behavioral symptoms.