Survey 1 | Survey 2 | In-person consensus meeting | ||||
Characteristic | PPs | Patients | PPs | Patients | PPs | Patients |
N | 19 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
Gender: men (%) | 10 (53) | 8 (66) | 12 (71) | 6 (50) | 8 (73) | 1 (100) |
Age: median (min-max) years | 48 (29–68) | 42 (28–56) | 54 (30–69) | 46 (29–68) | 54 (32–68) | 49 |
Role | ||||||
Clinician and researcher | 13 | – | 14 | – | 10 | – |
Researcher/scientist only | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | – |
Tendinopathy cases per month | NA | NA | ||||
None | 7 | 4 | 1 | |||
At least 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Between 5 and 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||
Between 11 and 15 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |||
More than 16 | 2 | 5 | 1 | |||
Other* | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||
Years managing tendon problems | NA | NA | ||||
None | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
At least 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
Between 5 and 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||
Between 11 and 15 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
More than 16 | 12 | 12 | 8 | |||
Other* | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Profession | NA | NA | ||||
Physiotherapist | 12 | 8 | 7 | |||
Orthopaedic surgeon | 3 | 5 | 2 | |||
Sports physician | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
General practitioner | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
Other | 1 (Biomedicine) | 1 (retired orthopaedic surgeon) | 1 (rheumatologist) | |||
Currently have a tendon problem | 1 | 12 | – | 12 | – | 1 |
History of a tendon problem | 9 | 5 | – | 8 | – | 1 |
Countries where participants work | ||||||
Australia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
UK | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
USA | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
The Netherlands | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Italy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Canada | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
*Not further specified.
NA, not applicable; PPs, professional participants.