The effect of COVID19 public health restrictions on the health of people with musculoskeletal conditions and symptoms : the CONTAIN study

Funding This work was supported by Versus Arthritis [Grant Number: 20748] and the British Society for Rheumatology. The funding for the original studies included were from Versus Arthritis (MAmMOTH) and the British Society for Rheumatology (BSRBR-AS and BSR-PsA). Daniel Whibley is supported by a Versus Arthritis Foundation Fellowship [Grant Number 21742] Acknowledgements We are grateful to help from staff at the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society and specifically to patient partners Lynne Laidlaw (for help with designing questionnaire) and Susan Davis (for commenting on the manuscript). The authors do not report any conflicts of interest. GJM conceived the idea for the study and all authors were involved in the detailed planning. MH, KK, EM-B and MB were responsible for obtaining ethics and research governance approvals. MB undertook the analysis which was independently verified by GTJ. GJM, with input from MB, drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed important intellectual content via written comments. We thank Linda Dean for comments on the manuscript. Data Availability Statement The data within the article which relate to the collection of BSR register data are owned by the BSR – access to these data are subject to application being made to the BSR: Registers (rheumatology.org.uk) . For other data in the article, application can be made for access to the data by contacting the corresponding author.Peer reviewedPublisher PD