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Meta-Analysis
. 2019 Nov 25;2019(11):CD011284.
doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011284.pub2.

Individual recovery expectations and prognosis of outcomes in non-specific low back pain: prognostic factor review

Jill A Hayden  1 , Maria N Wilson  2 , Richard D Riley  3 , Ross Iles  4 , Tamar Pincus  5 , Rachel Ogilvie  6
Affiliations
Meta-Analysis

Individual recovery expectations and prognosis of outcomes in non-specific low back pain: prognostic factor review

Jill A Hayden et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. .

Abstract

Background: Low back pain is costly and disabling. Prognostic factor evidence can help healthcare providers and patients understand likely prognosis, inform the development of prediction models to identify subgroups, and may inform new treatment strategies. Recent studies have suggested that people who have poor expectations for recovery experience more back pain disability, but study results have differed.

Objectives: To synthesise evidence on the association between recovery expectations and disability outcomes in adults with low back pain, and explore sources of heterogeneity.

Search methods: The search strategy included broad and focused electronic searches of MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and PsycINFO to 12 March 2019, reference list searches of relevant reviews and included studies, and citation searches of relevant expectation measurement tools.

Selection criteria: We included low back pain prognosis studies from any setting assessing general, self-efficacy, and treatment expectations (measured dichotomously and continuously on a 0 - 10 scale), and their association with work participation, clinically important recovery, functional limitations, or pain intensity outcomes at short (3 months), medium (6 months), long (12 months), and very long (> 16 months) follow-up.

Data collection and analysis: We extracted study characteristics and all reported estimates of unadjusted and adjusted associations between expectations and related outcomes. Two review authors independently assessed risks of bias using the Quality in Prognosis Studies (QUIPS) tool. We conducted narrative syntheses and meta-analyses when appropriate unadjusted or adjusted estimates were available. Two review authors independently graded and reported the overall quality of evidence.

Main results: We screened 4635 unique citations to include 60 studies (30,530 participants). Thirty-five studies were conducted in Europe, 21 in North America, and four in Australia. Study populations were mostly chronic (37%), from healthcare (62%) or occupational settings (26%). General expectation was the most common type of recovery expectation measured (70%); 16 studies measured more than one type of expectation. Usable data for syntheses were available for 52 studies (87% of studies; 28,885 participants). We found moderate-quality evidence that positive recovery expectations are strongly associated with better work participation (narrative synthesis: 21 studies; meta-analysis: 12 studies, 4777 participants: odds ratio (OR) 2.43, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.64 to 3.62), and low-quality evidence for clinically important recovery outcomes (narrative synthesis: 12 studies; meta-analysis: 5 studies, 1820 participants: OR 1.89, 95% CI 1.49 to 2.41), both at follow-up times closest to 12 months, using adjusted data. The association of recovery expectations with other outcomes of interest, including functional limitations (narrative synthesis: 10 studies; meta-analysis: 3 studies, 1435 participants: OR 1.40, 95% CI 0.85 to 2.31) and pain intensity (narrative synthesis: 9 studies; meta-analysis: 3 studies, 1555 participants: OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.23) outcomes at follow-up times closest to 12 months using adjusted data, is less certain, achieving very low- and low-quality evidence, respectively. No studies reported statistically significant or clinically important negative associations between recovery expectations and any low back pain outcome.

Authors' conclusions: We found that individual recovery expectations are probably strongly associated with future work participation (moderate-quality evidence) and may be associated with clinically important recovery outcomes (low-quality evidence). The association of recovery expectations with other outcomes of interest is less certain. Our findings suggest that recovery expectations should be considered in future studies, to improve prognosis and management of low back pain.

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Conflict of interest statement

JAH has no known conflicts of interest related to the topic of this review. She is a Co‐Convenor of the Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group and Advisory Board Member of Cochrane Back and Neck, however was not involved in editorial decisions involving this review. She has received peer‐reviewed funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, and Cochrane. She previously held a Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation/Dalhousie University Research Professorship in Epidemiology.

MW has no known conflicts of interest related to this review.

RDR has no known conflicts of interest related to the topic of this review. He receives payments for training courses provided in‐house to other organisations; he receives funding from MRC and NIHR for other meta‐analysis projects and has received payment from BMJ for review preparation. He is a Co‐Convenor of the Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group, however was not involved in editorial decisions involving this review.

RI has no known conflicts of interest related to this review.

TP has no known conflicts of interest related to the topic of this review. She is employed full time by the Royal Holloway University of London and has received grants from Arthritis Research UK, and NIHR.

RO has no known conflicts of interest related to this review.

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Conceptual framework of the relationship between recovery expectations and LBP outcomes.
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PRISMA flow diagram showing identification and selection of included studies.
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QUIPS risk of bias graph: Review authors' judgements about each risk of bias domain presented as percentages across all included studies (n=60).
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Forest plot: Are expectations associated with work participation (closest to 12 months)? Dichotomous measure of expectations; unadjusted results (10 studies; 11 groups 4,528 participants), and adjusted results (12 studies; 13 groups; 4,777 participants)
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Funnel plot of comparison: Are expectations associated with work participation (closest to 12 months)? Dichotomous measure of expectations.
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Forest plot of comparison: 2 Are expectations associated with important recovery (closest to 12 months)?, outcome: 2.1 Dichotomous measure of expectations.
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