Knowledge about Fibromyalgia in Fibromyalgia Patients and Its Relation to HRQoL and Physical Activity

摘要

Fibromyalgia (FM) affects 2.40% of the Spanish population and its most widespread treatment has been the combination of patient education, pain coping strategies and exercise, in this sense, with respect to patient education, few studies have tried to see the relationship between education in FM with an improvement in FM. Therefore, the aim of this study was to know the level of knowledge about FM among patients in Extremadura, to explore the relationship between knowledge of FM and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and to analyze the relationship between knowledge of physical activity in FM and the practice of physical activity. For this purpose, 121 women with a mean age of 55.06 years were evaluated. It was found that 10% of these women had low knowledge of FM, 49% medium and 41% high. It was also found that the level of knowledge of physical activity was only weakly related to HRQOL and body pain. Thus, it was concluded that the level of knowledge about FM of patients in Extremadura was medium-high and that there was a weak relationship between knowledge about physical activity in FM and HRQOL. However, no relationship was found between knowledge of physical activity in FM and the practice of physical activity.