Study Objectives: To investigate the extent to which sleep measures are reported in intervention trials for chronic low back pain.

Methods: A systematic scoping review was conducted. Ovid MEDLINE, Cochrane CENTRAL, and CINAHL were queried for trials published between January 2010 and December 2022 using keywords related to chronic low back pain. Two reviewers screened and reviewed abstracts and full texts for eligibility criteria and extracted data. Randomized intervention trials with the aim to treat pain or disability related to chronic low back pain in adults were included. Data were pooled and synthesized from trials that included a measure of sleep.

Results: Two hundred eighty-two trials conducted in 40 different countries were included in the final review. Twenty-six trials (9.2%) assessed any sleep measure, and 13 (4.6%) collected a formal sleep disturbance measure at multiple time points. Three trials analyzed the mediating effects of sleep disturbance on pain. Reporting of sleep measures was no better in more recently published trials; trials published in 2010 (22%; n = 2/9) and 2022 (23%; n = 3/13) had the highest reporting rates.

Conclusions: The poor adherence to guideline recommendations for capturing measures of sleep quality or disturbance limits clinicians' and researchers' understanding of how sleep may influence treatment effects for chronic low back pain. There is an opportunity to improve the understanding of the relationship between sleep and pain with improved collection and reporting of sleep disturbance measures.

Citation: Neilson BD, Dickerson C, Young JL, Shepherd MH, Rhon DI. Measures of sleep disturbance are not routinely captured in trials for chronic low back pain: a systematic scoping review of 282 trials. . 2023;19(11):1961-1970.

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