The effectiveness of digital interventions for self-management of chronic pain in employment settings: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic pain affects over a quarter of the workforce with high economic burden for individuals, employers and healthcare services. Access to work-related advice for people with chronic pain is variable. This systematic review aims to explore the effectiveness of workplace-delivered digital interventions for the self-management of chronic pain.

Source of data

MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, the Cochrane Library, JBI, Open Science Framework, Epistemonikos and Google Scholar. Articles published between January 2001 and December 2023 were included. Searches were conducted between October 2023 and December 2023.

Areas of agreement

Workplace-delivered digital interventions to support self-management of chronic pain at work may improve pain and health-related

SUBMITTER: Blake H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436954 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature