PROMs for fibromyalgia

Abstract

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a complex syndrome that encompasses a myriad of symptoms without objective signs or lesions. With such a background, FMS is perhaps the rheumatic condition that cries out louder for patient reported outcome measures (PROMs). Unfortunately, neither are there many PROMs that can be used in FMS nor have they been well or fully validated. The symptoms in FMS-pain, sleep quality, fatigue, etc.-are very challenging to measure without error and in a valid manner, as they are all very subjective and interrelated, as well as subjected to multiple confounding factors, including gender and cultural factors. We herein present the PROMs developed specifically for FMS or for aspects within the syndrome and highlight their psychometric properties.