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eAddenda: Appendices 1 to 3, Box 1, and Tables 1, 2 and 8 can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphys.2020.03.007.
Ethics approval: The Metro South Human Research Ethics Committee approved this study (HREC/13/QPAH/434). All participants gave written informed consent before data collection began.
Competing interest: The authors have no competing interest.
Sources of support: This work was supported by a Health Practitioner Stimulus Grant from Queensland Health and a Small Project Investment Grant of the Private Practice Trust Fund (PPTF) of Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service. ABS is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Oxford. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of data as well as in the writing of the report and the decision to submit the article for publication.
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