ArticleFrontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2022
Sensory Perception Quotient Reveals Visual, Scent and Touch Sensory Hypersensitivity in People With Fibromyalgia Syndrome.
Article in Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evoked temporal summation in dogs to assess pain central sensitization and modulation - A feasibility study.PloS one · 2026Article
- A neuropsychological perspective on sensory hypersensitivity after acquired brain injury.Brain communications · 2026Review
- Sensory Modulation Disorder as a Diagnostic Marker in Fibromyalgia: Associations with Stress and Symptom Severity.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sensory Processing Patterns in People With Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.OTJR : occupation, participation and health · 2025Article
- Multimodal hypersensitivity and somatic symptoms predict adolescent postmenarchal widespread pain.Pain · 2025Article
- Sense of Smell in Individuals with Fibromyalgia: a Tractography Study.Clinical neuroradiology · 2025Article
- Central Sensitivity Symptoms and Autistic Traits in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Investigating Self-Reported Sensory Intolerance and Perceptual Ability Across Sensory Modalities in Fibromyalgia.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Sensory processing in medically unexplained pain syndrome. A systematic review.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Multisensory sensitivity in relation to pain: a scoping review of terminology and assessment.Pain reports · 2024Article
- Fibromyalgia is linked to increased subjective sensory sensitivity across multiple senses.Perception · 2024Article
- Motor Dysfunctions in Fibromyalgia Patients: The Importance of Breathing.Open access rheumatology : research and reviews · 2024Article
- Exploring sensory sensitivity, cortical excitability, and habituation in episodic migraine, as a function of age and disease severity, using the pattern-reversal task.The journal of headache and pain · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Environmental sensitivity is commonly reported by people with fibromyalgia syndrome. People living with fibromyalgia syndrome frequently report hypersensitivity to noxious and non-noxious sensations. To date, there has been little empirical validation of sensory disturbance to non-noxious triggers. Environmental sensitivity is used as a diagnostic feature only in Bennet's alternative criteria for diagnosis of fibromyalgia, where it was ranked the second most important of the components for diagnosis, after number of pain sites. The aim of this study was to use a validated sensory measure to determine if people with fibromyalgia have greater sensory disturbances compared to people with other chronic pain conditions. Methods: This study used the Sensory Perception Quotient (SPQ) 92 question survey in adults with chronic pain conditions. A fibromyalgia group ( Results: The fibromyalgia group reported significantly more sensitivity compared to the control group ( Conclusions: These findings demonstrate greater sensory hypersensitivity in people with fibromyalgia compared to people with other chronic pain disorders. Greater hypersensitivity was restricted to touch, vision, and smell, all of which have previously been demonstrated to crosstalk with nociception.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.