Has anything changed for Fibromyalgia? Focus groups with patients on their lived experiences in England

• Cosima Locher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cosima Locher, Anna Kharko

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cosima.locher@unibas.ch

  Affiliation Clinical Psychology and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9660-0590

  ⨯
• Anna Kharko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cosima Locher, Anna Kharko

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  ⨯
• Joseph W. Lanario,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  ⨯
• Leo Druart,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Radiology, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Medical Expectations Lab, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5060-6620

  ⨯
• Kirralise Hansford,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5738-6843

  ⨯
• Helen Koechlin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, University Children’s Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Division of Child and Adolescent Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Children’s Research Centre, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  ⨯
• Anthony Davies

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Pain Management Centre, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  ⨯