About the Authors

Mohammad Bayattork

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Physical Therapy, Western University, Ontario, London, Canada, Department of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, Faculty of Humanities Science, University of Hormozgan, BandarAbbas, Iran

Saghar Soltan Abadi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Physical Therapy, Western University, Ontario, London, Canada

Tom Carter

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CBI Health Group Inc., Ontario, Canada

Lynn Cooper

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Canadian Injured Workers Alliance, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

David M. Walton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dwalton5@uwo.ca

Affiliation School of Physical Therapy, Western University, Ontario, London, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. D. Walton is creator of the Traumatic Injuries Distress Scale, which is available for free download and use through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International general use license, meaning it can be freely downloaded, used, and modified as long modifications remain available to the public and neither the original nor adapted versions are being sold or used to generate profit without permission of D. Walton. T. Carter is employed by the CBI Health Group Inc. in Canada, with no part of this project influencing his employment or reimbursement. L. Cooper is employed by the Canadian Injured Workers Alliance, and is a patient partner on the team that, amongst other roles, ensured that the design and dissemination of the project reduced as much as possible the potential for unintended harms to injured workers. S. SoltanAbadi is a PhD trainee and M. Bayattork is a Postdoctoral Associate, both of whom participated in data collection and/or analysis.