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 |