| ANZCTR | Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry |
| BA | Behavioural Activation |
| BPI | Brief Pain Inventory |
| CENTRAL | Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CINAHL | Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
| COBRA | Cost and Outcome of Behavioural Activation versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression |
| GRADE | Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation |
| GRADEpro GDT | GRADEpro Guideline Development Tool |
| ISRCTN | International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number |
| MeSH | Medical Subject Headings |
| MD | Mean Difference |
| NRS | Numeric Rating Scale |
| PICOS | Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, and Study design |
| PRESS | Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PRISMA-P | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |
| RCT | Randomised Controlled Trial |
| RoB 2 | Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool |
| SMD | Standardised Mean Difference |
| SWiM | Synthesis Without Meta-analysis |
| VAS | Visual Analogue Scale |
| WHO ICTRP | World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform |