One hundred Australian participants were recruited via social media, community advertisement and word of mouth during June–November 2019. Participants were eligible if they had knee OA based on self-reported physician diagnosis or clinical diagnostic criteria [7]. Exclusion criteria included: inflammatory arthritis; arthroplasty (any joint), prior or current participation in care with a focus on self-management education e.g. chronic pain program or tertiary OA program; or difficulty communicating in English. A sample size of 100 participants would give a 95% confidence interval margin of error of about 0.2 standard deviations around a sample mean for outcome measures (i.e. a confidence interval of width of 0.4 standard deviations). This was considered appropriate for an exploratory study.
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