ArticleInternational journal of biometeorology2014
Do weather changes influence pain levels in women with fibromyalgia, and can psychosocial variables moderate these influences?
Article in International journal of biometeorology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01236209 (Stimulating Self Management in Patients With Fibromyalgia Through Web-based Situational Feedback), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Stimulating Self Management in Patients With Fibromyalgia Through Web-based Situational Feedback
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Blame it on the weather? The association between pain in fibromyalgia, relative humidity, temperature and barometric pressure.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Climatic determinants of rheumatic and autoimmune musculoskeletal pain: a fourteen-year primary care time-series study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Climate Change and Air Pollution-Related Health Effects on Pain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Association Between Chronic Pain and Fatigue Severity with Weather and Air Pollution Among Females with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Climate and human health: a review of publication trends in the International Journal of Biometeorology.International journal of biometeorology · 2023Review
- Weather-related subjective well-being in patients with coronary artery disease.International journal of biometeorology · 2021Article
- Weather sensitivity associated with quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia.BMC rheumatology · 2021Article
- Fibromyalgia and Associated Disorders: From Pain to Chronic Suffering, From Subjective Hypersensitivity to Hypersensitivity Syndrome.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Personality profiles and meteoropathy intensity: A comparative study between young and older adults.PloS one · 2020Article
- How the weather affects the pain of citizen scientists using a smartphone app.NPJ digital medicine · 2019Article
- Severity of symptoms persists for decades in fibromyalgia-a 26-year follow-up study.Clinical rheumatology · 2018Article
- Investigating Subjective Experience and the Influence of Weather Among Individuals With Fibromyalgia: A Content Analysis of Twitter.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2017Article
- Impact of climate change on rheumatic diseases: A scoping review.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the association between fibromyalgia pain and weather, and to investigate whether psychosocial factors influence this relationship. Women with chronic widespread pain/fibromyalgia (N = 50) enrolled in a larger study, were recruited from a 4-week inpatient rehabilitation program in Norway ( 2009-2010), and reported their pain and psychological factors up to three times per day (morning, afternoon, evening) for 5 weeks. These ratings were then related to the official local weather parameters. Barometric pressure recorded simultaneously impacted pain significantly while temperature, relative humidity, and solar flux did not. No psychological variables influenced the weather-pain interaction. No weather parameter predicted change in the subsequent pain measures. The magnitude of the inverse association between pain and barometric pressure was very small, and none of the psychological variables studied influenced the association between pain and barometric pressure. All in all, the evidence for a strong weather-pain association in fibromyalgia seems limited at best.
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