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Emotional Allodynia Questionnaire (AEQ) in Fibromyalgia (PEARL)

NCT07677631 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 423

Last updated 2026-07-01

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Summary

The Emotional Allodynia Questionnaire (AEQ) is an 11-item self-report instrument that measures disproportionate emotional reactivity to low-intensity interpersonal cues(perceived unresponsiveness, exclusion, loss of reciprocity), a pattern termed emotional allodynia. It was preliminarily validated in a single-center fibromyalgia sample. PEARL (validation phase) is a multicenter, prospective, observational psychometric validation study that (1) replicates the internal structure and convergent validity of the AEQ in an independent fibromyalgia sample, (2) tests its known-groups (discriminative) accuracy in separating fibromyalgia from non-fibromyalgia chronic pain of defined nociceptive or neuropathic origin, expressed as the area under the ROC curve (AUC), and (3) assesses test-retest reliability. There is no intervention.

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Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universita di Verona

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Cagliari

    collaborator OTHER

  • IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Bari

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alberto Corriero, MD, PhD · University of Bari Aldo Moro, Pain and ICU Section

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-10
Primary Completion
2027-06-30
Completion
2027-08-31

Countries

  • Italy

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