ABSTRACT

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine prevalence of fibromyalgia in housewives

Methods: It was Cross Sectional Survey. Public and Private Clinical Setups to screen patients coming for Orthopedic, Physiotherapy and Neurological departments. Both male and female, Age above 18 years and having widespread of pains were included. Data was collected through questionnaire extracted from similar studies conducted in past. It will have three parts, demographics, widespread pain index (WPS) and symptom scale (SS). SPSS V.21 is used for data analysis.

Results: Main Results regarding prevalence of suspected fibromyalgia showed that there were 8.2% females susceptible to fibromyalgia while rest majority of 91.8% were non-fibromyalgia. Results regarding descriptive statistics as mean and standard deviation of self-care, widespread pain index, symptom severity and total FM score found to be 0.13±0.335, 5.17±1.240, 3.43±0.760 and 8.61±1.724, respectively.

Conclusion: The results showed high prevalence of fibromyalgia as compare to expectation. However, there was high prevalence of musculoskeletal problems in females as per measured as associate findings.

Keywords: Fibromyalgia (FM), Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), Physical Therapy, Prevalence