Table 2 Eligibility criteria assessed on the health survey questionnaire

Participants will be eligible to be invited to the baseline nurse clinical assessment if they meet the following criteria on the health survey questionnaire:

   • Give consent to further contact

   • Report hand pain in the last 12 months

   • Report hand pain aching or stiffness on "some days", "most days" or "all days" in the last month

   • Have an AUSCAN pain score > = 5 or an AUSCAN function score > = 9

   • Report they have not:

a. seen an occupational or physiotherapist for their hand in the last 6 months

b. injured their hands badly enough to see a doctor in the last 6 months

c. had any hand operations in the last 6 months

d. had any hand injections in the last 6 months

   • No other household member is participating in the trial