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Magnesium, Stress and Fibromyalgia

Effect of Magnesium on Stress in Fibromyalgia: Randomized Double-blind Placebo Controlled Trial

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03887000
Acronym
SeMAFor
Enrollment
75
Registered
2019-03-22
Start date
2019-03-28
Completion date
2020-05-12
Last updated
2026-08-05

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Fibromyalgia

Keywords

Fibromyalgia, Stress, Magnesium, Sleep disorders

Brief summary

Fibromyalgia affects an average of 2% of the French population. Data from the literature report that low levels of magnesium could be associated with fibromyalgia. However, no study to date has investigated the effect of oral magnesium administration on stress in fibromyalgia. This trial therefore aims to evaluate whether magnesium could improve stress and the various disorders that contribute to the complexity of fibromyalgia, including pain, cognition, sleep disorders and quality of life.

Detailed description

This is an interventional, randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind study of the use of magnesium in fibromyalgia. The effect of magnesium on stress measured by DASS-42 over 28 days after taking magnesium / placebo will be studied. The secondary objectives will evaluate the evolution of the scores of all the tests and questionnaires carried out before taking magnesium or placebo (D0: Visit 2), then at D0 + 28 (visit 3) and D0 + 84 days (visit 4 corresponding to the end-of-study visit). Secondary parameters are the following : Impact of fibromyalgia, heart rate variability, pain intensity, cognition, feelings of patients, impression of change, sleep quality, fatigue intensity, social vulnerability, catastrophism, presence of small fiber neuropathy, stress induced by colors, pain induced by thermal stimulation, concentration of magnesium, analysis of microbiota and evaluation of genetic factor. Blood magnesium and magnesuria will be measured.

Interventions

OTHERplacebo

Fibromyalgia patients taking either magnesium or placebo according to the randomized plan

OTHERmagnesium

Fibromyalgia patients taking either magnesium or placebo according to the randomized plan

Sponsors

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Lead SponsorOTHER
CIC Inserm 1405, University Hospital Clermont-Ferrand, France
CollaboratorUNKNOWN

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patient over the age of 18, * Patient with fibromyalgia according to the criteria of the 2016 ACR, * Patient presenting a score on the DASS-42 \> 18 scale, * Patient free from any initiation of new treatment or diet at the time of inclusion, * Cooperation and understanding sufficient to comply with the requirements of the study, * Acceptance to give written consent, * Affiliation to the French Social Security system, * Registration or acceptance of registration in the National Register of Volunteers participating in research.

Exclusion criteria

* having a contraindication to the administration of magnesium: hypersensitivity to magnesium chloride, or to any of the excipients, * with a magnesium concentration of \> 1.05 mmol / l,- with severe renal impairment with a creatinine clearance \< 30 ml / min, * receiving a treatment or dietary supplement containing magnesium at the time of inclusion, * treated with antibiotics in the three months prior to inclusion,- who has reported gastroenteritis in the two months prior to inclusion, * physically unfit to place the palms or soles of the feet on the Sudoscan® electrodes, * having a medical and / or surgical history judged by the investigator or his representative to be incompatible with the test (in particular a disease known to cause small fiber neuropathies: diabetes, Sjögren's disease, vasculitis, sarcoidosis, chronic ethylism ....), * using anticoagulant therapy or allergy to local anesthetics,- of childbearing age not using an effective contraceptive method, pregnant or breastfeeding woman. * participating in another clinical trial, or being in the exclusion period, or having received a total amount of benefits exceeding EUR 4500 over the 12 months preceding the start of the trial, * having cooperation and understanding that does not allow strict compliance with the conditions laid down in the Protocol, * benefiting from a measure of legal protection (guardianship, guardianship, deprivation of liberty, safeguard of justice), * not affiliated to the French Social Security system.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Measure of stress with DASS-42at day 0Measure of stress with stress subscale in magnesium and placebo group. This subscale consists of 14 questions of self-evaluation

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Evaluation of the impact of fibromyalgia using the FIQ questionnaireDay0; Day0+28; Day0+84The revised FIQ questionnaire is a 10-item self-questionnaire that assesses the impact of fibromyalgia
Detection of fibromyalgia using the FIRST questionnaireDay0; Day0+28; Day0+84The FIRST questionnaire is a 6-item self-questionnaire that detects fibromyalgia.
Evaluation of stress by the heart rate variabilityDay0-7; Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84Heart rate variability (HRV / HRV) is a measure of changes in heart rate that will provide an estimate of stress. It is usually calculated by analyzing time series of beat-by-beat intervals of the ECG or blood pressure plots.
Assessment Using Numerical Scale (EN)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84This scale allows the patient to note the pain on a graduation whose minimum score is 0 and the maximum score is 10.
Concise Pain Questionnaire (QCD)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84This self-assessment scale allows the patient to characterize the pain in relation to its psychosocial intensity and impact. The patient is asked to answer 9 graduated questions by circling a number from 0 (no pain) to 10 (the most horrible pain you can imagine).
Evaluation of the impact on cognition by the Trail Making Test A and B (TMT A and B) and the Cantab® testDay0; Day0+28; Day0+84The Trail Making Test (TMT) is recognized as one of the most frequently used neuropsychological tests in clinical practice alternating numbers and letters (1-A-2-B-3- C, etc.). The Cantab® is a comprehension test, executive functions, memory, attention and decision-making.
Evaluation of the impact on cognition by the Trail Making Test A and B (TMT A and B)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84The Trail Making Test (TMT) is recognized as one of the most frequently used neuropsychological tests in clinical practice alternating numbers and letters (1-A-2-B-3- C, etc.).
Cantab® testDay0; Day0+28; Day0+84The Cantab® is a comprehension test, executive functions, memory, attention and decision-making.
Evaluation of the emotions by visualization of images and scale evaluating the feelings of the patientsDay0; Day0+28; Day0+84The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) is a library of 1200 standardized images that can induce an emotional reaction, constituting as many emotional stimuli (positive or negative) or not (neutral).
Evaluation of the overall impression of change by the Patient Global Impression of Change Questionnaire (PGIC)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84The Global Impression of Change Patient is a scale of global perception of change ("deterioration" or "improvement") completed by the patient. This scale is graduated from 1 = much better to 7 = significantly worse
Evaluation of the impact on the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84The Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index is a self-administered questionnaire with 19 items. It has been developed to measure the quality of sleep in the month preceding the interview with the patient. This questionnaire has 7 components: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, usual sleep efficiency, sleep disorders, use of a sleep medication, and poor daytime fitness
Evaluation of the intensity of fatigue by the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84The fatigue severity scale is a 9-item self-questionnaire to assess the patient's fatigue intensity. The patient is asked to circle a number from 1 to 7 for each question, a low value representing a low intensity
Social Vulnerability Assessment (EPICES)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84The EPICES questionnaire is composed of 11 binary questions (yes / no) allowing to calculate an individual score indicating the precariousness and inequalities of health ranging from 0 to 100.
Evaluation of catastrophism by the PCS (Pain Catastrophizing Scale) scaleDay0; Day0+28; Day0+84Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) is a questionnaire in which the patient is asked to describe the kind of thought and emotions they feel during pain. This questionnaire consists of 13 items describing different thoughts or emotions that may be associated with the pain. The patient will have to indicate how much he has these thoughts or emotions when he feels pain by giving a score between 0 and 4, 0: not at all, 4: all the time. The final score is the sum of the scores for each question.
Quality of life (Short Form 12 items Short Form survey)Day0; Day0+28; Day0+84assessed by a quality of life questionnaire (Short Form 12 items Short Form survey (SF12)
Evaluation of the presence of small fiber neuropathy (Sudoscan® )AT Day0; Day0+28Sudoscan® (Impeto Medical, Paris, France) is a new device that provides a rapid, non-invasive and reproducible quantitative assessment of sweat function.
Evaluation of the presence of small fiber neuropathy (skin biopsy)at Day0A skin biopsy will be realized for histological analysis to determine the presence of small fiber neuropathy.
plasma magnesium dosageD0; D0+28; D0+84The intracellular magnesium concentrations will be determined by the blood samples taken at the inclusion visit, at the end of the treatment on visit 3 (D0 + 28) and on visit 4 (D0 + 84).
erythrocyte magnesium dosageD0; D0+28; D0+84The erythrocyte magnesium concentrations will be determined by the blood samples taken at the inclusion visit, at the end of the treatment on visit 3 (D0 + 28) and on visit 4 (D0 + 84).
urinary magnesium dosageD0; D0+28; D0+84The urinary concentration of magnesium will be determined by the urine collected for 24 hours, the day before visits 3 and 4.
creatinine dosageD0-7The creatinine concentrations will be determined by the blood samples taken at the inclusion visit.
Analysis of the microbiota (stool samples)24 hours before the visit 2Analysis of the microbiota: the patient must carry out the collection at her home maximum 24 hours before the visit 2 by following the technical instructions described in the explanatory note that will be provided. She will then ensure that the stool preservation and transport procedure described in this document is followed.
Evaluation of genetic polymorphism using OpenArray technologyDay0-7Identification of genes involved
Evaluation of stress response during visual stimulationDay0; Day0+28Stress intensity will be assessed by the numerical stress rating scale: the scale ranges from 0 "no stress" to 10 "maximal stress" following different visual stimulation induced by different colors during the anticipatory phase of pain.
Evaluation of pain response during thermal stimulationDay0; Day0+28Pain intensity will be assessed by the numerical pain rating scale (NPRS): the scale ranges from 0 "no pain" to 10 "maximal tolerable pain" following different thermal stimulations (using Pathway Medoc®).
Evaluation of electromyography (EMG) of median nerveday 0EMG motor and sensitive of the median nerve on both arm to control the speed of electrical conduction. For this purpose, we will measure the amplitude, latency and speed for the motor test, and the amplitude and speed for the sensitivity test.

Countries

France

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORGisèle PICKERING

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Aug 6, 2026