Collard, V. E. J.
Moore, C.
Nichols, V.
Ellard, D. R.
Patel, S.
Sandhu, H.
Parsons, H.
Sharma, U.
Underwood, M.
Madan, J.
Tang, N. K. Y.
Article History
Received: 15 April 2021
Accepted: 1 September 2021
First Online: 20 October 2021
Declarations
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: Our study protocol was reviewed and granted favourable ethical opinion and approval by the Solihull NHS Research Ethics Committee (REC NRES reference number: 14/WM/1053). As such, all data collection and subsequent analysis methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant prior to group interview commencement. Assurances of confidentiality and omissions of potentially identifiable data were made alongside the option for participants to decline any or all the data usage in subsequent analysis.
: Written informed consent was obtained from each participant prior to group interview commencement. Assurances of confidentiality and omissions of potentially identifiable data were made alongside the option for participants to decline any or all the data usage in subsequent analysis and publication.
: HS & SP are directors of Health Psychology Services Ltd. which in part provides psychological treatments for those with chronic pain. HS and HP are chief investigators and co-investigators on other NIHR funded projects relating to chronic pain. MU is chief investigator or co-investigator on multiple previous and current research grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research, Arthritis Research UK and is a co-investigator on grants funded by the Australian NHMRC. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator. He has received travel expenses for speaking at conferences from the professional organisations hosting those conferences. He is a director and shareholder of Clinvivo Ltd. which provides electronic data collection for health services research. He is part of an academic partnership with Serco Ltd. related to return-to-work initiatives. He and HP are co-investigators on a study receiving support in kind from Stryker Ltd. He has accepted honoraria for teaching/lecturing from the Confederation for Advance Research Training in Africa. He was until 2019 an editor of the NIHR journal series, and a member of the NIHR Journal Editors Group, for which he received a fee. NKYT received grant funding as co-investigator from NIHR for other projects and current funding from the Medical Research Council as principal investigator. NKYT is also a member of the trial steering committee of an ongoing trial of insomnia treatment in primary care funded by the NIHR. There are no competing interests to be reported by any of the other authors.