Funding for this research was provided by:
Arthritis Research UK (20777, 20777)
Arthritis Research UK (20777)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2017
Accepted: 28 February 2018
First Online: 9 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained for the data collection at all waves from the National Health Service (NHS) Research Committees service. This analysis was a secondary analysis of the anonymised survey data.
: Not applicable.
: All authors received grant funding from Arthritis Research UK. Eamonn Ferguson and David Walsh have previously received grant funding from Pfizer (relating to pain phenotypes in rheumatoid arthritis), outside of the submitted work.
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