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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Understanding the Associations between Executive Function and Psychological Variables in Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Network Analysis Approach.

Juan C Pacho-Hernández, Francisco G Fernández-Palacios, Ángela Tejera-Alonso, César Fernández-de-Las-Peñas, Umut Varol, Juan A Valera-Calero, Luis M Fernández-Méndez, Margarita Cigarán-Mendez

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Juan C Pacho-HernándezDepartment of Psychology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3197-453X
Francisco G Fernández-PalaciosDepartment of Psychology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain.ORCID 0009-0008-9820-9959
Ángela Tejera-AlonsoDepartment of Psychology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain.
César Fernández-de-Las-PeñasDepartment Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, University Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3772-9690
Umut VarolEscuela Internacional de Doctorado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Alcorcón, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2288-9475
Juan A Valera-CaleroDepartment of Radiology, Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Nursery, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3379-8392
Luis M Fernández-MéndezDepartment Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, University Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain.
Margarita Cigarán-MendezDepartment of Psychology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain.

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to quantify the multivariate relationships between clinical, cognitive performance, executive functioning, and psychological outcomes in women with fibromyalgia (FMS) using network analyses. Demographic (age, height, weight), clinical (pain history, pain intensity, and related disability), neurocognitive (D2 Attention test, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure for visual perception, "Digits D/R/I" tests of the WAIS-IV battery for working memory, the 5-Digit Test for mental inhibition, the Symbol Search for processing speed and the Zoo Test for planning/decision making) and psychological (depressive symptoms, anxiety levels, sleep quality, pain hypervigilance) variables were collected in 129 women with FMS and 111 healthy women. Network analyses were conducted separately for each group to quantify the adjusted correlations between the modeled variables and to assess their centrality indices (i.e., connectivity with other symptoms in the network and their importance in the network). The network identified 74 associations in FMS women and 46 associations in controls with small differences. The strongest correlations in both groups were found between different attention variables: d2_CON with d2_C, d2_O with d_2TR, and d2_CON with d2_TA. The most central variables were d2_TA, d2_C, and d2_CON (highest strength centrality in both groups) and anxiety levels and pain hypervigilance (highest harmonic centrality in FMS women). The strength centrality of the network was stable for women with FMS (CScor0.7: 0.68) but not for healthy women (CScor0.7: 0.28). This study found that attention variables are most relevant within a neurocognitive network and that psychological variables are most important for the treatment of women with FMS. The clinical implications of the current findings, such as the development of treatments targeting these variables, are discussed.

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cognitiveexecutionfibro fogfibromyalgianetwork analysis

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PMID39201236
PMCPMC11353253

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