Fibromyalgia is a rheumatological disease of unknown origin, which features a chronic pain, and it usually goes together with depression symptoms. It mainly affects women and does not have a cure, although several treatments can alleviate the symptoms. Cognitive-behavioural psychological therapty is one of the tools that have proved efficient when treating this pathology.

Now, a study published in the journal International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, reveals there is another psychological therapeutical strategy (personal construct therapy) which is equally efficient when reducing the depression symptoms and improving the life quality of patients.

This multicentre study, which includes the participation of teams from the UB, the UOC (Spain) and UDLA (Ecuador), is coordinated by Professor Guillem Feixas, from the Faculty of Psychology of the UB and the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBNeuro).

The results of the new study “will contribute to shed light on efficient therapies and gain flexibility to adapting to particularities and needs of each patient”, notes lecturer Mari Aguilera, from the Faculty of Psychology of the UB and UBNeuro, who is also member of the UOC and the interuniversity group GRECIL (UB-UOC), and principal co-author of the study together with researcher Clara Paz (UDLA).

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