EVOLUTION IN STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BE TWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL-FACTORSAND FIBROMYALGIA

This work studies the psychosocial research in Fibromyalgia conducted during the last decade. First, we observed that this research was focu sed on the study of the psychological causes for the syndrome and its results are not consistent. Second, there are few studies considering the most current issues of the psychosocial research in chronic pain. The psychosocial impact of fibromyalgia and the contribution of the ps ychosocial factors to its chronic pain experience were not explored.