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Suicidal ideation in female individuals with fibromyalgia and comorbid obesity: prevalence and association with clinical, pain-related and psychological factors.

Giorgia VaralloFederica ScarpinaTor ArnisonEmanuele Maria GiustiMicheal TentiGiada RapelliRoberto CattivelliGiulia LandiEliana TossaniSilvana GrandiChristian FranceschiniValentina BaldiniGiuseppe PlazziPaolo CapodaglioGianluca Castelnuovo
Published in: Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) (2023)
The presence of suicidal ideation in our sample was significantly associated with depressive symptomatology, sleep quality, and pain catastrophizing. Our findings are the first to suggest a unique (i.e., independent of depressive symptomatology, and sleep quality) association between pain catastrophizing and suicidal ideation in the context of fibromyalgia and comorbid obesity. In order to prevent and reduce suicidal ideation, these factors should be assessed and targeted in interventions for pain management. Future research should investigate the extent to which addressing depressive symptoms, sleep quality, and pain catastrophizing reduces suicidal ideation.
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