Investigating Musculoskeletal Health and Wellbeing (IMH&W) cohort
The Investigating Musculoskeletal Health and Wellbeing study (IMH&W) was initiated in 2018 as a prospective cohort of people with, or at risk of developing, frailty, MSK pain or disability. IMH&W aims to identify discrete subgroups and their associations to measure and characterise the development and progression of pain, frailty and disability. It provides a longitudinal context for nested research, permitting targeted recruitment of participants for qualitative, observational and interventional studies, helping to understand recruitment bias in clinical studies and providing a source cohort for cohort randomised controlled trials. Ongoing recruitment within the UK through primary and secondary care, and through non-clinical settings has reached >8800 IMH&W participants. Data are available at baseline, plus up to 3 waves of annual follow up to 2022. IMH&W has been supported through the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre.
Available data describe:
- demographic characteristics
- pain severity, distribution and quality (Numerical rating scale, body manikin, McGill Pain Questionnaire)
- Central Aspects of Pain questionnaire
- frailty (FRAIL)
- disability (Fried criteria and FRAIL)
- medications
- comorbidities
- fracture risk
IMH&W has and continues to support recruitment and data collection for a range of qualitative and quantitative, observational and interventional research studies:
Data enquiries and requests for IMH&W should be directed to msk-recruitment@nottingham.ac.uk
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