An Italian Survey and Focus Groups on Fibromyalgia Impairment: Impact on Work and Possible Reasonable Accommodations.

ABSTRACT: Fibromyalgia symptoms affect the sufferers' working life; however, through reasonable accommodations in workplaces, they can continue to work satisfactorily. There are no Italian studies on factors that facilitate or hinder fibromyalgia-affected people's working life. Our objective was to explore, in a pre-pandemic setting, the quality of working life of fibromyalgia sufferers and reasonable accommodations to improve it. Quantitative and qualitative methods were applied; a survey-questionnaire, participatory-developed, was online-administered to a sample of self-reported FM sufferers (N = 1176). Then, two Focus Groups (FGs), involving 15 fibromyalgia-affected women, were held. Data were analyzed by a thematic analysis approach. Among survey-respondents, 20% were unemployed and only 14% wen

SUBMITTER: Tenti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10815387 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature