Fibromyalgia & musculoskeletal pain
Impact of enhanced pain knowledge on core outcomes in fibromyalgia patients with high self-reported pain education needs: a target trial emulation using the DANFIB registry
Authors' conclusion
This study suggests that achieving pain educational learning objectives leads to better clinical outcomes in fibromyalgia patients, supporting the integration of pain education into patient programmes.
Study context
- Population
- FM patients (DANFIB registry) with a high need to learn about pain (NRS >7) who attended a 2-day therapeutic educational programme and re-rated their learning needseligible cohort
- Participants
- 450 patients
- Exposure
- Good vs poor educational outcome after a 2-day therapeutic educational programme
- Good educational outcomen = 121
- Poor educational outcomen = 329reference
- Outcome
- Overall impact of FM, Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire Revised (FIQR) impact subscale
- Follow-up
- 9 months
Methodological detailsprospectively collected registry data, repeated measures linear mixed models, fully adjusted
- Prospectively collected registry data
- Repeated measures linear mixed models
- Fully adjusted
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
FIQR impact subscale score, fully adjusted
Good educational outcome
8.0
95% CI 7.3–8.7
Poor educational outcome
9.6
95% CI 9.0–10.2
Observational data: associations, not effects.
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Original publication
Impact of enhanced pain knowledge on core outcomes in fibromyalgia patients with high self-reported pain education needs: a target trial emulation using the DANFIB registry. RMD Open. Published 12 June 2025. doi:10.
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