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Keeping a daily electronic record of symptoms may boost Fibromyalgia care
08 February 2011
Daily electronic records of symptoms can help fibromyalgia patients and their doctors better understand the condition, a new study has shown.
Researchers gave 81 women with fibromyalgia a digital handheld device to report pain, sleep problems, emotional distress and other issues three times a day for 30 days.
The researchers at the University of Utah and University of Washington believed that this ability to immediately report symptoms would prove more effective than asking patients to recall symptoms at their periodic visits with their doctors.
The results showed that being able to analyse several measures of multiple symptoms over time can help clarify relationships among symptoms, the researchers found. For example, the records kept by patients in this study showed that: previous pain is a significant predictor of both fatigue and emotional distress; prior worsening of fatigue predicts current increased pain; and a previous rise in emotional distress predicts current fatigue.
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