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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Exploring Emotional Eating and Emotion Dysregulation in Fibromyalgia Patients: Implications for Disease Management.

Mehmet Serhat Topaloğlu, Meltem Puşuroğlu

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Mehmet Serhat TopaloğluDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize 53100, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0003-4525-3928
Meltem PuşuroğluDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize 53100, Türkiye.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesFibromyalgia (FM) is a complex disease with symptoms such as brain fog, widespread body pain, sleep disturbances, and mood changes, and its etiology is not clearly understood. Our main aim in this study was to evaluate emotional eating and emotional dysregulation in patients with FM and examine the possible effects of these disorders on disease severity. MATERIALS AND

methodsThis observational study included 94 patients with FM (6 males, 88 females; mean age: 44.64 ± 9.04 years; range, 19-65 years) and 76 controls (7 males, 69 females; mean age: 41.91 ± 10.874 years; range, 18-64 years). The patient and control group participants completed a form including sociodemographic data. Participants also completed the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), Emotional Eating Questionnaire (EEQ), and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS).

resultsIn unadjusted comparisons, DERS-goals and DERS-strategies scores were higher in the FM group than in controls; however, these differences did not remain statistically significant after Bonferroni correction. In the linear regression model, it was found that the total score of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-Total) (

conclusionsEmotional regulation difficulties were associated with FM symptom severity, whereas emotional eating did not differ significantly between groups and was not associated with symptom severity. These findings suggest that emotion-related psychological processes should be considered within the biopsychosocial framework of FM.

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emotional eatingemotion dysregulationfibromyalgiapsychological symptoms

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