Macfarlane, Gary JBeasley, MarcusScott, NeilChong, HueyMcNamee, PaulMcBeth, JohnBasu, NeilHannaford, Philip CJones, Gareth TKeeley, PhilPrescott, Gordon JLovell, Karina2020-12-032020-12-032021-07Macfarlane, G J, Beasley, M, Scott, N, Chong, H, McNamee, P, McBeth, J, Basu, N, Hannaford, P C, Jones, G T, Keeley, P, Prescott, G J & Lovell, K 2021, 'Maintaining musculoskeletal health using a behavioural therapy approach : a population-based randomised controlled trial (the MAmMOTH Study)', Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 903-911. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-2190910003-4967ORCID: 0000-0003-2322-3314ORCID: 0000-0002-2588-1006ORCID: /0000-0002-8067-9660/work/90172174ORCID: /0000-0003-0016-7591/work/90173463ORCID: /0000-0003-2322-3314/work/90172440ORCID: /0000-0001-6045-386X/work/102133273https://hdl.handle.net/2164/15446Acknowledgements: The study was funded by Arthritis Research UK (now Versus Arthritis) grant number: 20748. Costs for delivery of the intervention were provided by NHS Grampian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and NHS Highland. The funder of the study had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. We acknowledge the contribution of the trial steering committee to the successful conduct of the study. The members were Professor Ernest Choy (Cardiff University), Professor Tamar Pincus (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Gordon Taylor (Bath University). We thank Brian Taylor and Mark Forrest from the Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT) at the University of Aberdeen for their technical assistance and Professor Graeme MacLennan, Director of CHaRT, for methodological input. Professor John Norrie (originally University of Aberdeen now University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Majid Artus (originally Keele University, now the Osmaston surgery, Derbyshire) were study investigators at the time of grant award but subsequently left the study. We thank Kathy Longley (a representative of Fibromyalgia Action UK) for her input to the grant application and the project as well as from members of the public on the University of Aberdeen College of Life Sciences and Medicine Research Interest Group. The prioritisation of “Prevention of chronic pain” arose from a 2012 meeting of the Arthritis Research UK Clinical Study Group in Pain to which patients contributed.9417160109276282980742871engeconomicsepidemiologyfibromyalgiaR MedicineGeneral Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular BiologyRheumatologyImmunology and AllergyImmunologyArthritis Research UK (ARUK)20748Supplementary DataRJournal article10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219091807