- Framework of problems / Comprehensive
- Redundant / overlapping / duplicated review question; leads to research waste
- A Call for Improving Research on Pain Neuroscience Education and Chronic Pain: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
| Ref ID | 889 |
| First Author | J. Martinez-Calderon |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2023.11833 |
| Keywords |
Pain Publication bias Disclosure Low reporting quality Low methodological quality |
| Problem(s) |
Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed Redundant / overlapping / duplicated review question; leads to research waste Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided Poor consideration of publication bias |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 8 |
| Summary of Findings | From eight systematic review the effects of pain neuroscience education delivered alone or combined with other interventions for chronic pain indexed across CINAHL (via EBSCOhost), Embase, PsycINFO (via ProQuest), PubMed, and the Cochrane Library from inception to November 14, 2022. All of the systematic reviews (n = 8/8, 100%) were judged to have a critically low methodological quality (AMSTAR 2). Only 2 reviews provided a list of excluded studies (n = 2/8, 25%) or adequately assessed publication bias, and only 1 reported the funding source for the clinical trials they included (n = 7/8, 87%). There was also an overall primary study overlap of 13% and higher overlap for specific conditions e.g. chronic low back pain (40%). Four out of eight systematic reviews published during 2022 evaluated similar research questions. |
| Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? | Not Applicable |
| Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? | Yes |