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. 2021 Jun 3;11:15. doi: 10.1186/s40945-021-00109-y

Table 1.

Selection criteria

RECORDS SCREENING
For the two objectives
 Inclusion criteria

1) Observable behaviors related to the experience of pain

2) Human participants

3) Adult participants (> 18 years-old)

 Exclusion criteria

1) Participants with cognitive or communicative impairments

2) Studies in other language than English and French

FULL-TEXT ASSESSMENT FOR ELIGIBILITY
For the first objective: Observation methods to assess pain behaviors
 Inclusion criteria

1) Participants with musculoskeletal pain

2) Use of a direct observation method with enough details to reproduce it

For the second objective: Pain behaviors present in the selected literature
 Inclusion criterion 1) behavior that can be directly observed by clinicians