| ACT | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy |
| BDI | Beck Depression Inventory |
| CBT | Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy |
| CBT-I | Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy–Insomnia |
| CES-D | Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale |
| CINAHL | Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
| CP | Chronic Pain |
| CPG | Chronic Pain Grade |
| DASS | Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale |
| DL | DerSimonian–Laird |
| GDS | Geriatric Depression Scale |
| HADS | Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale |
| HRSD | Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression |
| HSCL | Hopkins Symptom Checklist |
| ISCIPBDS | International Spinal Cord Injury Pain Basic Data Set |
| MARS | Meta-Analysis Reporting Methods |
| NRS | Numerical Rating Scale |
| PHQ | Patient Health Questionnaire |
| POMS | Profile of Mood States |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |
| RAPS | Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain Scale |
| RCTs | Randomized Controlled Trials |
| SE | Standard Error |
| SF-36 | 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey |
| SF-MPQ | Short Form of the McGill Pain Questionnaire |
| SWiM | Synthesis Without Meta-Analysis |
| TSSEM | Two-stage structural equation modeling |
| VAS | Visual Analog Scale |
| WHYMPI | West-Haven–Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory |
| WOMAC | Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index |
| ZSDS | Zung Self-rating Depression Scale |