Shorter telomere length is associated with COVID-19 hospitalization and with persistence of radiographic lung abnormalities.

Background: Age and comorbidity are the main determinants of COVID-19 outcome. Shorter leukocyte telomere length (TL), a hallmark of biological aging, has been associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes. We sought to determine TL in patients with severe COVID-19 requiring hospitalization to analyze whether clinical outcomes and post-COVID-19 manifestations are associated with shorter TL.

SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell responses after COVID-19 recovery in patients with rheumatic diseases on immunosuppressive therapy.

Background: In patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (RMD), the development of T-cell responses against SARS-CoV-2 may be impaired by either the immune disturbances associated with the disease, or by the effects of immunosuppressive therapies. We aimed at determining the magnitude of SARS-CoV-2-specific interferon (IFN)-γ-producing T-cell response after COVID-19 recovery in a cohort of patients with RMD on different immunosuppressive therapies.

Patients And Methods: 53 adult patients with inflammatory or autoimmune RMD and 61 sex and age-matched non-RMD patients with confirmed COVID-19 were included.

Clinical outcomes of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 and chronic inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a multicentric matched cohort study.

Objectives: The impact of inflammatory rheumatic diseases on COVID-19 severity is poorly known. Here, we compare the outcomes of a cohort of patients with rheumatic diseases with a matched control cohort to identify potential risk factors for severe illness.

Methods: In this comparative cohort study, we identified hospital PCR+COVID-19 rheumatic patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis (IA) or connective tissue diseases (CTDs).

Promoting unsupervised walking in women with fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial.

The objective of this study is to test the efficacy of a group motivational plus implementation intentions intervention in promoting adherence to an unsupervised walking program recommended for fibromyalgia, compared to an implementation intentions condition and to an active control condition. A triple-blind, randomized, longitudinal study with measures at baseline, short (seven weeks post-intervention), mid (12 weeks) and long-term (36 weeks) is performed. Data are analyzed using multilevel longitudinal growth curve two-level modelling.

Goal Preferences, Affect, Activity Patterns and Health Outcomes in Women With Fibromyalgia.

Some motivational models understand health behavior as a result of the interaction between goal preferences and mood. However, this perspective has not been explored in fibromyalgia. Furthermore, in chronic pain, it has only been explored with regard to negative affect.

Predicting walking as exercise in women with fibromyalgia from the perspective of the theory of planned behavior.

Based on the theory of planned behavior, this study examined factors related to the intention to adhere to an unsupervised walking program and the intention-behavior gap in relation to walking adherence in women with fibromyalgia. We also accounted for specific variables: fear of movement, pain intensity, distress and disability. TPB constructs, walking behavior and the above-mentioned variables were assessed in 274 women aged 18 to 70 years old (mean 51.

Do women with fibromyalgia adhere to walking for exercise programs to improve their health? Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Walking is recommended for fibromyalgia, but the rate of adherence to this exercise is not known. Poor adherence to physical exercise can limit the effectiveness in health benefits.

Objectives: To examine adherence to interventions that include walking for fibromyalgia and to explore its moderators among the characteristics of patients, of the walking prescription and of the interventions.

Prevalence and predictors of unsupervised walking and physical activity in a community population of women with fibromyalgia.

Physical exercise is recognized as a component of the evidence-based guidelines for treatment of fibromyalgia. Walking is a low-moderate intensity exercise easily adaptable to a fibromyalgia patient's situation. The present study aims to estimate the prevalence of unsupervised walking for exercise in women with fibromyalgia, to describe their level of physical activity and to identify their predictors among socio-demographic, symptom perception and medical advice to walk.

Walking Beliefs in Women With Fibromyalgia: Clinical Profile and Impact on Walking Behavior.

Although exercise is essential for the treatment of fibromyalgia, adherence is low. Walking, as a form of physical exercise, has significant advantages. The aim of this article is to describe, in 920 women with fibromyalgia, the prevalence of certain walking beliefs and analyze their effects both on the walking behavior itself and on the associated symptoms when patients walk according to a clinically recommended way.

To walk or not to walk: insights from a qualitative description study with women suffering from fibromyalgia.

Walking improves health outcomes in fibromyalgia; however, there is low adherence to this practice. The aim of this research was to explore the beliefs of women suffering from fibromyalgia toward walking, and the meaning that they attribute to the behavior of walking as part of their fibromyalgia treatment. This study is a qualitative description research.

Combining motivational and volitional strategies to promote unsupervised walking in patients with fibromyalgia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Fibromyalgia patients are often advised to engage in regular low- to moderate-intensity physical exercise. The need of fibromyalgia patients to walk has been stressed in previous research. Behavioral self-regulation theories suggest that a combination of motivational aspects (to develop or strengthen a behavioral intention: Theory of Planned Behavior) and volitional aspects (engagement of intention in behavior: implementation intentions) is more effective than a single intervention.

Adaptation and validation of the Spanish version of the Social Comparison Scale in chronic illness patients.

This study examined the Social Comparison Scale in Spanish chronic illness context and analyzed its psychometric properties. The article presented the results of two studies. The first explored the test's dimensional structure in a sample of 202 patients in a range of several chronic illnesses.

[Use and abuse of the Internet in university students].

Aim: To adapt a questionnaire for assessing the use and abuse of Internet, as well as the relationship between this resource and psychosocial profile in a group of university students.

Method: 391 students filled out the questionnaires; 26.1% were men and 73.