• J Psychosom Res · Nov 2016

    Review Meta Analysis

    Is there a relationship between psychological stress or anxiety and chronic nonspecific neck-arm pain in adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    • Gorka Ortego, Jorge Hugo Villafañe, Victor Doménech-García, Pedro Berjano, Lucia Bertozzi, and Pablo Herrero.
    • iPhysio Research Group, Universidad San Jorge, Campus Universitario, Autov A23 km 299, 50830, Villanueva de Gállego Zaragoza, Spain. Electronic address: gortego@alumni.usj.es.
    • J Psychosom Res. 2016 Nov 1; 90: 70-81.

    PurposeTo systematically review and analyze the research evidence linking stress or anxiety to chronic nonspecific neck-arm pain (NSNAP) in adults.Subjects And MethodsData were obtained from Pubmed, Scopus, PsycInfo, Web of Science, Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) and The Cochrane library database from their inception to July 2015. Two authors independently conducted the searches, extracted data, and completed methodological quality assessments. The methodological quality of the cohort and case-control studies was evaluated using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale, whilst the quality of the Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) was evaluated using the PEDro scale.ResultsTwenty-eight studies involving 39,166 participants met the inclusion criteria. Four studies, including 5 pair-wise comparisons, were included in the meta-analysis: Three were cohort studies and 1 was a cross-sectional study. The meta-analysis outcome demonstrated a relationship between chronic NSNAP and psychological stress. The estimate odds ratio for all studies combined was 2.33 (95% CI, 1.04-5.18; p=0.039). A high heterogeneity of the findings appeared (Q=28.94, I2=86% p=0.00).ConclusionThis study shows that there is a strong relationship between stress and chronic NSNAP. Despite this finding, we cannot support that stress is a risk factor for chronic NSNAP due to the low quality of the results according to the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE). It was not possible to make a quantitative analysis comparing the relationship between anxiety and chronic NSNAP. However, according to the qualitative analysis there is a strong relationship between anxiety and chronic NSNAP.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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