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Types of Sleep Difficulties Experienced in FMS Baseline analysis of participants with FMS in a clinical trial of hydrotherapy revealed that participants (N=50) reported sleeping for a total of five hours per night. This is comparable to patients with insomnia, less than participants with chronic pain and significantly worse than the general population as described in Chapter Two (Vitorino, Carvalho, & Prado, 2006). A key study published during the completion of this thesis, explored the nature of perceived sleep disturbances in patients with FMS using the PSQI. Findings revealed that participants with FMS perceived their overall sleep quality to be poor, with over 90% of participants obtaining a PSQI global score >10 (Osorio et al., 2006). As described in Chapter Two, PSQI global scores of >5 are considered to be indicative of poor sleep quality in need of treatment, however for this study the authors set the cut-off score as 10 for reasons that were unspecified. This change in scoring makes comparisons to other studies about the extent of sleep difficulties based on the PSQI scores problematic. Despite these limitations, on exploring the components of sleep quality within this sample, it was revealed that people with FMS reported significantly more night-time awakenings, difficulties falling asleep and reduced daytime dysfunction, in comparison to matched healthy controls. This suggests that the reduction in total sleep time observed by Vitorino et al (2006) may be caused by difficulties both with sleep onset and sleep maintenance. The findings of the study by Vitorino et al (2006) were also limited by its ability to generalize to the FMS population due to its small sample size (N=30) and because of sampling participants solely from a rheumatology clinic (which may not be representative of the whole FMS population). The study did not explore the influence of sleep quality on illness outcome. Consequently further research is needed to explore people‟s perceptions of sleep quality in FMS and how poor sleep may impact on their illness experience and daily living in people with FMS. 43
Relationships between Sleep and Pain in FMS Comparable to the findings from research into chronic pain, sleep, pain and mood have been found to be significantly correlated in FMS. The initial study exploring perceived sleep quality in FMS assessed sleep quality using the PSQI and found that poor sleep quality, sleep efficiency, increased night-time awakenings and poor overall scores of sleep quality as assessed by the PSQI global score, were all associated with increased sensitivity to pain, as assessed by dolorimetry (Agargun et al., 1999). However, this study did not explore the effect of poor sleep on other symptoms of the condition. Nicassio et al (2002) asked participants to complete a questionnaire exploring levels of pain, fatigue, depression and sleep quality for the period of one week. Analysis of the baseline data revealed that as expected, high levels of pain were associated with high levels of depression and fatigue, and that there was a negative association with sleep quality. The data collected over the course of the week was then aggregated to explore the effect of pain on subsequent sleep quality and fatigue. It was revealed that the prior day‟s pain was associated with poor sleep quality and increased fatigue. Interestingly, sleep quality appeared to mediate the relationship between pain and the following day‟s fatigue. This suggests that interventions to improve sleep quality, that have been effective in improving symptomology in other chronic conditions (Lobbezoo, Tanguay, Thon, & Lavigne, 1996), may improve the experience of FMS symptoms. The measures used in this study however, have limitations. For example, sleep was measured using only one item from the sleep subscale of the FIA questionnaire (Mason, Silverman, Weaver, & Simms, 1992) which focused on feelings on awakening from sleep, rather than asking directly about perceived sleep quality. It would be expected that feelings on awakening are very likely to be associated with perceived pain, mood and fatigue that day. In addition, completing the assessments on a daily basis did not enable the above studies to account for how symptoms may vary over the course of day, therefore the role of sleep on subsequent symptoms remains unclear. In contrast to the research conducted by Nicassio et al (2002), which found that pain impacts on subsequent sleep quality, studies that have been conducted over longer periods of time have revealed different relationships between pain and sleep. In a daily diary study using palm top computers to record mood, sleep and fatigue over 30 consecutive days by 89 women with FMS, it was revealed that perceived total sleep 44
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References Abad, V. C., Sarinas, P.
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Crofford, L. J., & Demitrack, M. A.
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Johns, M. W. (2002). Sleep propensi
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Mease, P. J. (2005). Fibromyalgia s
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Appendices Appendix A: Search Strat
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PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed Journal
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