Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the eDelphi panel at rounds 1 and 2. Data are presented as mean (95% CI) for continuous data and frequency count (%) for categorical data.
| Characteristic | Panel round 1 (n=674) | Panel round 2 (n=439; 65.1%) |
| Age | 48.3 (47.3 to 49.3) | 49.7 (48.5 to 50.8) |
| Gender | male: 351 (52.1); female: 316 (46.9); other: 7 (1.0) |
male: 231 (52.6); female: 206 (46.9); other 2 (0.5) |
| Type of response | ||
| Individual | 565 (83.8) | 354 (80.6) |
| Organisation | 109 (16.2) | 85 (19.4) |
| Category of responder* | ||
| Person with a lived experience of MSK health condition | 149 (22.1) | 94 (21.4) |
| Registered clinician/health worker | 517 (76.7) | 332 (75.6) |
| Officer of a clinical/professional organisation | 149 (22.1) | 115 (26.2) |
| Health policy, service design/implementation officer | 103 (15.3) | 74 (16.9) |
| Advocacy role | 126 (18.7) | 87 (19.8) |
| Thought leader† | 128 (19.0) | 91 (20.7) |
| Academic or workforce training position | 290 (43.0) | 199 (45.3) |
| WHO officer | 3 (0.4) | 3 (0.7) |
| National Ministry of Health officer | 8 (1.2) | 6 (1.4) |
| Total years healthcare experience | 21.1 (20.2 to 22.0) | 22.2 (21.1 to 23.3) |
| Total years lived experience with MSK health condition‡ | 18.7 (16.4 to 21.0) | 20.9 (17.9 to 23.9) |
| Economic band (World Bank Classifications 2020§) | ||
| High income: by country; by participant | 39 (54.2); 494 (73.3) | 37 (56.1); 329 (74.9) |
| Low and middle-income: by countries; by participant | 33 (45.8); 180 (26.7) | 29 (43.9); 110 (25.1) |
| Global geographic regions: n (%) participants | ||
| East Asia and Pacific | 114 (16.9) | 80 (18.2) |
| Europe and Central Asia | 241 (35.8) | 172 (39.2) |
| Latin America and Caribbean | 54 (8.0) | 25 (5.7) |
| Middle East and North Africa | 11 (1.6) | 5 (1.1) |
| North America | 179 (26.6) | 106 (24.1) |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 33 (4.9) | 22 (5.0) |
| South Asia | 42 (6.2) | 29 (6.6) |
| Highest level of education | ||
| Secondary/high school | 5 (0.7) | 5 (1.1) |
| Diploma/certificate/apprenticeship | 16 (2.4) | 6 (1.4) |
| University bachelor’s degree | 83 (12.3) | 56 (12.8) |
| University higher degree (Master’s) | 200 (29.7) | 129 (29.4) |
| University higher degree (PhD) | 229 (34.0) | 164 (37.4) |
| University higher degree (other) | 141 (20.9) | 79 (18.0) |
| Clinical disciplines | 517 (76.7) | 332 (75.6) |
| Complementary medicine practitioner | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0) |
| Anaesthetist/anaesthesiologist | 17 (3.3) | 10 (3.0) |
| Chiropractor | 68 (13.2) | 52 (15.7) |
| Dietitian/nutritionist | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) |
| Emergency medicine physician | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) |
| Endocrinologist | 2 (0.4) | 2 (0.6) |
| Exercise physiologist/scientist | 2 (0.4) | 2 (0.6) |
| General physician | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) |
| Gerontologist/geriatrician | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) |
| Infectious diseases physician | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.3) |
| Kinesiologist | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0) |
| Neurologist | 3 (0.6) | 3 (0.9) |
| Nurse/nurse practitioner | 6 (1.2) | 3 (0.9) |
| Occupational therapist | 23 (4.4) | 15 (4.5) |
| Orthopaedic surgeon | 41 (7.9) | 23 (6.9) |
| Osteopath | 3 (0.6) | 3 (0.9) |
| Other manual therapist | 4 (0.8) | 2 (0.6) |
| Paediatrician | 5 (1.0) | 4 (1.2) |
| Physician assistant | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) |
| Physiotherapist/physical therapist | 222 (42.9) | 127 (38.3) |
| Podiatrist/chiropodist | 3 (0.6) | 2 (0.6) |
| Primary care/family physician | 4 (0.8) | 1 (0.3) |
| Psychologist/clinical psychologist | 2 (0.4) | 2 (0.6) |
| Public health physician | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.3) |
| Rehabilitation and physical medicine physician | 42 (8.1) | 29 (8.7) |
| Rheumatologist (including paediatric rheumatologist) | 60 (11.6) | 45 (13.6) |
*Categories are not mutually exclusive; hence proportions exceed 100%.
†Defined as having published at least two peer-reviewed papers or health policies in the last 5 years related to global health systems or health services reform for MSK health, MSK pain, injury, non-communicable disease, ageing, disability or rehabilitation.
‡Answered only by panellists who identified as living with an MSK health condition for at least 5 years.
§World Bank Classifications: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups.
MSK, musculoskeletal; WHO, World Health Organization.