Occupational Therapy’s Unique Contribution to Chronic Pain Management: A Scoping Review

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Database Search strategy.

Database	Search strategy
Academic search complete, CINALH, evidence-based medicine, psychology and behavioral science collection, PsycINFO, and Scopus (MEDLINE and Embase)	(Occupational therapy: “Occupational therap∗”/) AND (chronic pain related terms: “Chronic pain∗” OR fibromyalgia∗ OR “back pain∗” OR “long term pain∗” OR migraine∗ OR “cervical pain∗” OR “neck pain∗” OR “complex regional pain syndrome” OR “chronic musculoskeletal∗ pain∗” OR “chronic headache∗” OR “chronic orofacial∗ pain∗” OR “chronic neuropathic∗ pain∗”) AND (practice related terms: Intervention∗ OR evaluat∗ OR assess∗ OR role∗ OR manag∗)
PubMed	(Occupational therapy: Occupational therapy OR occupational therapist OR occupational therapies OR occupational therapists) AND (chronic pain related terms: “Chronic pain” OR “chronic pains” OR fibromyalgia OR fibromyalgias OR “back pain” OR “back pains” OR migraine OR migraines OR “cervical pain” OR “cervical pains” OR “neck pain” OR “neck pains” OR “complex regional pain syndrome” OR “chronic musculoskeletal pain” OR “chronic musculoskeletal pains” OR “chronic headache” OR “chronic headaches” OR “chronic orofacial pain” OR “chronic orofacial pains” OR “chronic neuropathic pain” OR “chronic neuropathic pains”) AND (practice related terms: Intervention OR interventions OR evaluate OR evaluation OR evaluations OR assess OR assessment OR role OR roles OR manage OR management)
OTseeker	(Practice related terms: Assess∗ OR role∗ OR manag∗ OR evaluat∗ OR intervention∗ AND “chronic pain∗”)