So delighted to hear my fabulous colleague and friend @SabiBristol has been promoted to Professor. 🎉 Such brilliant, well deserved news. Huge congratulations Sabi x

We still need participants for this 15 min survey! 𝙄'𝙢 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 42 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 31 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨! 𝗔𝗶𝗺 The aim of this study is to develop a generic, non-condition specific questionnaire to evaluate the level of self-management and self-management skills in people with persistent musculoskeletal conditions which can be used to assess the level of self-management and improvements made; and which can be used as an outcome measure in scientific research. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸 In this phase of the project, the content validity of the MSK-SMQ will be assessed. Therefore, we ask you to fill in this survey and to answer some questions about the relevance and clarity of the questions (including the presence of unnecessary items and the need to rephrase questions). 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆: Thank you for you participation!

Development and content validity of the Musculoskeletal Self-Management Questionnaire (MSK SMQ) 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝟭𝟱 𝗠𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗬 The following people can fill in this survey: - People with a persistent musculoskeletal condition - Healthcare professionals - Researchers / academics 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆: 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 Self-management and self-management skills are considered important for people with musculoskeletal conditions. Therefore, it is important that clinicians working with these people address these self-management skills within their management and treatment. However, there is currently no questionnaire available to evaluate the level of self-management and self-management skills in people with persistent musculoskeletal conditions. 𝗔𝗶𝗺 The aim of this study is to develop a generic, non-condition specific questionnaire to evaluate the level of self-management and self-management skills in people with persistent musculoskeletal conditions which can be used to assess the level of self-management and improvements made; and which can be used as an outcome measure in scientific research. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸 In this phase of the project, the content validity of the MSK-SMQ will be assessed. Therefore, we ask you to fill in this survey and to answer some questions about the relevance and clarity of the questions (including the presence of unnecessary items and the need to rephrase questions). 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆: Thank you for your participation! Joletta Belton - United States JP Caneiro @jpcaneiro - Australia Hemakumar Devan @HemDevan - New Zealand Nathan Hutting @NathanHutting - The Netherlands Venerina Johnston @VenerinaJ - Australia Pete Moore @paintoolkit2 - United Kingdom Vinicius Cunha Oliveira @oliveira_vc1 - Brazil Julie Richardson - Canada J. Bart Staal - The Netherlands Nicola Walsh @NWalsh_Research - United Kingdom