Alexithymia and facial emotion recognition in patients with craniofacial pain and association of alexithymia with anxiety and depression: a systematic review with meta-analysis

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Brain, Cognition and Mental Health

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Introduction

Materials & methods

Study selection

Search strategy

Selection criteria and data extraction

Methodological quality assessment

Qualitative analysis

Data synthesis and analysis

Results

Characteristics of the study population

Results of the methodological quality

Evidence of alexithymia in craniofacial pain

Quantitative analysis

TAS

TAS-DDF

TAS-DIF

TAS-EOT

Correlations between alexithymia and anxiety

Correlations between alexithymia and depression

Meta-regression between alexithymia and anxiety or depression

Facial emotion recognition

Quantitative analysis

Discussion

Limitations

Clinical implications and future research

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Exclusion sensitivity plot for total TAS (A) score and TAS-DDF (B) subscale. A random-effects model was used.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12545/supp-1

Exclusion sensitivity plot for total TAS-DIF (A) and TAS-EOT (B) subscales. A random-effects model was used.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12545/supp-2

Exclusion sensitivity plot for the correlation between TAS variable and anxiety (A) and TAS variable and depression (B). A random-effects model was used.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12545/supp-3

PRISMA checklist.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12545/supp-4

Search strategy.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12545/supp-6

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

Roy La Touche is an Academic Editor for PeerJ.

Author Contributions

Roy La Touche conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Alberto García-Salgado performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Ferran Cuenca-Martínez conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Santiago Angulo-Díaz-Parreño analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Alba Paris-Alemany conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Luis Suso-Martí conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Aida Herranz-Gómez performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data used for statistical analysis are available in the Supplemental File.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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