Author: mskrehabnet

A project from Western University is conducting critical groundwork for a future grant application intended to develop and share a ‘core set’ of social and demographic questions for use in MSK rehabilitation research in Canada. The long-term goal of this program of research is to create a set of sociodemographic (SD) questions that are relevant to the Canadian context, to make those widely available, and to establish a mechanism for routine re-evaluation and revision of those questions as social sensibilities inevitably change with time.

As a first step, and taking no longer than 5 minutes: the research team is asking of all MSK Rehabilitation Research Network members, to append to the below survey any form(s) that you are currently or have recently used in an MSK-specific research project that has not yet been published (though could be on a preprint server). The research team does not want to see the data, only the questions being asked and the response options provided to participants. Word, PDF, or even screenshots of surveys are all accepted at this stage. We can accept these questions in either English or French. We will also invite you to provide a very brief few sentences on the purpose/context of the study from which the forms have come (e.g., age group, condition being studied, study design). We will extract the SD questions and response combinations verbatim and interpret them for constructs being collected, alongside all other such questions we extract from other researchers in Canada. The intention is to identify: a) what SD constructs are being most commonly collected by MSK researchers in Canada, b) how they are being collected, and c) similarities and differences across groups or research contexts.

The quick 3 question survey can be accessed here: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_55poOouJiNauEho

The research team will appreciate receiving responses within 2 weeks (by August 9th, 2024).