Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ALEXANDRE OTILIO PINTO JUNIOR

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STUDENT : ALEXANDRE OTILIO PINTO JUNIOR
DATE: 15/12/2023
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: presencial
TITLE:

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEVERITY OF FEELING OF LONELINESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN AND IMPACT ON DAILY LIFE OF WOMEN WITH FIBROMYALGIA

KEY WORDS:

Severity of suffering, psychological pain, fibromyalgia

PAGES: 35
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Medicina
SUMMARY:

According to the American College of Rheumatology (American College of
Rheumatology – ACR), Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic and complex disease,
characterized by moderate to severe pain at specific muscle points
(tender points). The prevalence of FM is 2 to 5% of the population, estimated in Brazil at 2.5%.
most frequently affecting women with an average age between 30 and 50 years, however,
Symptoms can appear at any age. Commonly, it is accompanied by fatigue,
sleep disorders, headache, systemic dysfunctions such as irritable bowel syndrome, cystitis
interstitial; as well as cognitive and psychological changes. Pain is the most common symptom,
mostly related to allodynia and hyperalgesia, and is considered a limiting factor
to carry out activities of daily living and work. A Spanish study from this year
noticed that women with FM had a higher rate of psychopathological alterations,
such as somatization, OCD, depression, and anxiety when compared to those who did not have
diagnosis of FM. Depression is the leading mental condition that affects people living
with FM, which leads them to the restriction of activities and personal relationships. (ANAYA et al., 2021;
CUYUL-VÁSQUEZ et al., 2021; GRAMINHA et al., 2021).
Psychological Pain (PD) can also be found in the literature as mental pain,
psychic suffering, psychic pain, emptiness or internal disturbance. PD being understood
as an unpleasant state of consciousness, resulting from experiences of loss, which leads to the
breakdown of individual and social integrity. Also, during a depressive episode the pain
The psychological crisis had been described as worse than any physical pain an individual had ever felt.
The concept of loneliness can be defined as a cognitive perception that people
social relationships are insufficient or inadequate, which results in a feeling of
of emptiness or sadness. In 1978, the first version of the Loneliness Scale of
UCLA, which already showed a moderate correlation with screening for depression, having
showed improvement in this relationship with its most current version, being one of the most
used (BARROSO et al., 2016; LUIS, 2016).

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