Alma Rus, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
José Alberto López-Sánchez, MSc, is PhD Student, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, and Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
María Carmen García-Ríos, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
Rosa María Tapia-Haro, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
Antonio Casas-Barragán, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
María Correa-Rodríguez, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
María Encarnación Aguilar-Ferrándiz, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
Accepted for publication July 29, 2022.
This work has been supported by FEDER/Junta de Andalucía-Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades (Spain; Grant No. A-CTS-120-UGR20). The authors would like to thank Beatriz Cobo for her assistance with the statistical analysis and both AGRAFIM (Association of Fibromyalgia of Granada, Spain) and AFIXA (Association of Fibromyalgia of Jaén, Spain) for participating in this study. This article is part of the PhD thesis developed by José Alberto López-Sánchez, that is included in the Official PhD Program of Biomedicine from the University of Granada, Spain.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.
This case–control study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Granada (Spain; Approval No. 1718-N-18).
Corresponding author: María Correa-Rodríguez, PhD, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 60, 18016, Granada, Spain (e-mail: [email protected]).
