Development of a Digital Health Intervention to Support Patients on a Waitlist for Orthopedic Specialist Care: Co-Design Study

Alexander Tacey   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Jack Behne   ³ , MScMed ;   Rhiannon K Patten   ¹ , PhD ;   Minh Truc Ngo   ² , MB ;   Rees Thomas   ⁴ , MSpPhty ;   Jessica Ancilleri   ¹ , BPsych (Hons) ;   Chelsea Bone   ¹ , BND (Hons) ;   Angela Paredes Castro   ¹ , BPsych (Hons) ;   Helen McCarthy   ^{1, 4} , PhD ;   Katherine Harkin   ^{1, 5} , MHSc ;   Julia FM Gilmartin-Thomas   ^{1, 6, 7, 8} , PhD ;   Amir Takla   ^{9, 10, 11} , MPhty ;   Calum Downie   ^{1, 7} , PhD ;   Jane Mulcahy   ⁴ , PhD ;   Michelle Ball   ¹ , PhD ;   Jenny Sharples   ¹ , PhD ;   Sarah Dash   ^{1, 12} , PhD ;   Amy Lawton   ⁴ , MHSc ;   Breanna Wright   ^{1, 4} , MHSc ;   Peter Sleeth   ⁴ , BA (Hons) ;   Tina Kostecki   ^{1, 13} , PhD ;   Christopher Sonn   ¹ , PhD ;   Michael J McKenna   ¹ , PhD ;   Vasso Apostolopoulos   ^{1, 7} , PhD ;   Rebecca Lane   ¹ , PhD ;   Catherine M Said   ^{3, 7, 11} , PhD ;   Mary De Gori   ³ , MBL ;   Andrew McAinch   ^{1, 7} , PhD ;   Phong Tran   ^{1, 2, 7} , MBBS ;   Itamar Levinger   ^{1, 7} , PhD ;   Alexandra Parker   ¹ , PhD ;   Mary N Woessner   ¹ , PhD ;   Michaela Pascoe   ¹ , PhD

¹ Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

² Department of Orthopaedic Surgey, Western Health, Melbourne, Australia

³ Department of Physiotherapy, Western Health, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

⁵ First Year College, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

⁷ Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS), Melbourne, Australia

⁸ Department of Medicine, Western Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁹ Australian Sports Physiotherapy, Melbourne, Australia

¹⁰ Department of Health Professions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

¹¹ School of Physiotherapy, Melbourne School of Health science, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

¹² The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Food & Mood Centre, School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

¹³ School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia