1Melbourne Medical School—Western Health, University of Melbourne, St Albans, Victoria, Australia
2Department of Physiotherapy, Western Health, St Albans, Victoria, Australia
3Western Health Chronic Disease Alliance, Western Health Centre for Research and Education, St Albans, Victoria, Australia
4School of Medicine, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia
5Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
6Department of General Internal Medicine, Western Health, St Albans, Victoria, Australia
Correspondence: Melanie Lloyd, MPhtySt, Department of Physiotherapy, Western Health, Level 3, WHCRE, Sunshine Hospital, Furlong Road, St Albans 3021, Victoria, Australia ([email protected]).
This study received funding from the HCF Research Foundation (grant number: EJWH2015163). Western Health, the University of Melbourne, and Monash University provided salary support to the investigators. Harin Karunajeewa was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship. Melanie Lloyd was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Scheme Scholarship. The funder had no role in the design or conduct of the study nor the decision to publish the results and preparation of this manuscript.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
All authors assume responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the data and analysis, the conduct of the trial, and the fidelity of the reporting of the study.
This study was approved by the Melbourne Health Human Research Ethics Committee (project number: HREC/2016/MH/171).
The project protocol has been published in full (see Skinner et al. Trials, 2018;19:88).
De-identified data from this study (including the data dictionary) are available from the authors on reasonable request, subject to ethical approval from the institutional review board and signing of a data sharing agreement.
