Systematic review and narrative synthesis of the experiences of individuals with chronic pain participating in digital pain management interventions.
Justin Damian Russell StrainLindsay WelchEuan SadlerPublished in: PloS one (2024)
Recommendations. The key recommendations from our findings are that digital pain management interventions should provide: Specific and tailored information for individual participants.Focus on changing attitudes and behaviours and reframing perceptions of pain.Structured goal setting with prompts to review goals.Potential healthcare professional support alongside the digital intervention.Limitations of the review. To reduce bias, it would have been preferable for more than one author to independently fully analyse each paper and to identify themes and sub-themes. Instead, the identified themes and sub-themes were discussed with two other authors in the team (ES, LW) to reach a consensus view on final themes and sub-themes. One author (JS) received a Research Internship and Research Initiation Award funded by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex (https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/) and NHS England (https://www.england.nhs.uk/). The protocol for this review was registered with the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) PROSPERO international database for registering systematic reviews (PROSPERO Registration Number CRD42021257768).
Keyphrases
- pain management
- chronic pain
- systematic review
- healthcare
- randomized controlled trial
- meta analyses
- physical activity
- patient safety
- primary care
- quality improvement
- cross sectional
- clinical practice
- palliative care
- emergency department
- spinal cord injury
- climate change
- social media
- health information
- neuropathic pain
- human health