Relaxation and guided imagery in Hispanic persons diagnosed with fibromyalgia: a pilot study.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain disorder affecting 2% of the population in the United States. Another 16 million Hispanics suffer from generically identified rheumatic diseases that likely include FM. Because there are few reported studies of Hispanics with FM, a pilot study using a repeated-measures pretest-posttest design investigated the effects of a 10-week mind-body intervention (visual imagery with relaxation) on symptom management. The change in means from baseline to week 10 demonstrated improvement in self-efficacy for managing pain and other symptoms and functional status. Visual imagery with relaxation is a mind-body intervention that may be used for symptom management in this population.
School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. vsmenzies@vcu.edu
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D019018:Imagery, Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods; D010865:Pilot Projects; D020377:Self Efficacy; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile