Cited by 48Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ResearchMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationPsychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

The role of pain catastrophizing and pain acceptance in performance-based and self-reported physical functioning in individuals with fibromyalgia and obesity.

Open access
Varallo, Giorgia, Scarpina, Federica, Giusti, Emanuele Maria, Suso-Ribera, Carlos, Cattivelli, Roberto, Guerrini Usubini, Anna, Capodaglio, Paolo, Castelnuovo, Gianluca·2021·Journal of Personalized Medicine

Abstract

Impaired physical functioning is one of the most critical consequences associated with fibromyalgia, especially when there is comorbid obesity. Psychological factors are known to contribute to perceived (i.e., subjective) physical functioning. However, physical function is a multidimensional concept encompassing both subjective and objective functioning. The contribution of psychological factors to performance-based (i.e., objective) functioning is unclear. This study aims to investigate the contribution of pain catastrophizing and pain acceptance to both self-reported and performance-based physical functioning. In this cross-sectional study, 160 participants completed self-report measures of pain catastrophizing, pain acceptance, and pain severity. A self-report measure and a performance-based test were used to assess physical functioning. Higher pain catastrophizing and lower pain acceptance were associated with poorer physical functioning at both self-reported and performance-based levels. Our results are consistent with previous evidence on the association between pain catastrophizing and pain acceptance with self-reported physical functioning. This study contributes to the current literature by providing novel insights into the role of psychological factors in performance-based physical functioning. Multidisciplinary interventions that address pain catastrophizing and pain acceptance are recommended and might be effective to improve both perceived and performance-based functioning in women with FM and obesity.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3390/jpm11080810

Cites

136 of 137 references verified1 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Self-regulation skills play a protective role against overreacting to internal and external cues that motivate people to eat palatable food.

    “The self-regulation skills have been found to play a protective role against overreacting to internal (e.g., emotions) and external (e.g., the availability of palatable food in the environment) cues that motivate people to eat palatable food, as in the case of emotional eating.”

    From The Mediating Role of Psychological Inflexibility in the Relationship Between Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Eating in Adult Individuals With Obesity (2022) · cites this paper as Varallo et al., 2021

    The Introduction and Discussion address pain acceptance, pain catastrophizing, and physical functioning in people with fibromyalgia and obesity. Searches for emotional eating, palatable food, and internal or external eating cues found no passage addressing whether self-regulation protects against overreacting to those cues. (LLM, conf=0.76)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Varallo, G., Scarpina, F., Giusti, E. M., Suso-Ribera, C., Cattivelli, R., Guerrini Usubini, A., Capodaglio, P., & Castelnuovo, G.
Affiliations
  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
  • IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano (IT)
  • Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Jaume I University, 12071 Castellon de la Plana, Spain
  • Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, San Giuseppe Hospital, 28824 Verbania, Italy
Corresponding author
Giusti, Emanuele Maria
Venue
Journal of Personalized Medicine
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-08-19
Volume
11
Issue
8
Pages
810
ISSN
2075-4426 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3195274251
Cited by
48
References
136
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 4
FWCI
6.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • IrInSubria (University of Insubria) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubliCatt (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Repositori UJI (Universitat Jaume I) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
fibromyalgia, obesity, pain catastrophizing, pain acceptance, physical function, self-reported physical function, pain intensity, psychological factors, comorbidities, women

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review