Prediction Model of Quality of Life Promotion on the Basis of Emotion Expression, Spiritual Intelligence and Pain acceptance in Female Patients with Fibromyalgia

Aims and The aim of the present study was prediction of quality of life promotion in female patients with fibromyalgia on the basis of emotion expression, and spiritual intelligence with mediating of pain acceptance as a model.
This research is descriptive and correlational. We used available sampling for selecting 300 female patients with fibromyalgia as the study population including female patients with fibromyalgia referred to Shiraz private clinics. Research Tools included Quality of Life questionnaire, Pain acceptance questionnaire, Emotion expression questionnaire and King spiritual intelligence scale.The data was analyzed by AMOS and with help of structural equation modeling.
Findings: The results indicated the influence of emotion expression on pain acceptance, spiritual intelligence on quality of life, and pain acceptance on quality of life ; however it did not indicate any influence of spiritual intelligence on pain acceptance.
Emotion expression, Spiritual intelligence and Pain acceptance are involved in quality of life in female patients with fibromyalgia and it is important to pay attention to use therapy on the basis of these variables.