We thank the National Institute for Health Research for funding the study and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, the fundholder.
We wish to acknowledge the valuable contribution of the QuEST study researcher team (Dr Peter McPherson, Dr Joanna Krotofil, Dr Sima Sandhu, Mr Christian Dalton-Locke, Ms Isobel Harrison and Dr Rose McGranahan) in preparing the study questionnaires, participant recruitment, data collection and data entry. Dr Sima Sandhu conducted the qualitative data analysis in WP3 and Dr Rose McGranahan conducted the qualitative data analysis in WP4, supervised by Stefan Priebe and Gerard Leavey. We thank Dr Sarah White for conducting part of the data analysis in WP1, and Dr Steven Bremner and Dr Zohra Zenasni for conducting the data analysis in WP2 under the supervision of Sandra Eldridge.
We would also like to thank the members of our Expert Panel (Mr Dave Fearon, Dr Patrick Gillespie, Dr Geraldine Strathdee and Mr Andrew Van Doorn) and our Service User Reference Group (Ms Katherine Barrett, Mr James Bennett and Mr Gavin McCabe) for their input throughout the programme.
We are also very grateful to our PSG for their valuable advice and oversight (Professor Tom Craig, Chairperson, King’s College London; Dr Lee Shepstone, Senior Statistician, University of East Anglia; Ms Alison Tingle, Mental Health Policy Advisor, Department of Health and Social Care; and Mr Maurice Arbuthnott, Service User Expert, North London SURF).
Finally, we warmly thank all of the participants at each site who agreed to be involved in this research programme.
Contributions of authors
Helen Killaspy (Chief Investigator, Professor of Rehabilitation Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Psychiatry) conceived and designed the programme. She also managed the day-to-day running of the programme, which was overseen by the PMG [chaired by Helen Killaspy and this comprised all co-investigators, researchers, the programme manager and two service user experts (one of whom was also a co-investigator – Maurice Arbuthnott)]. The PMG met quarterly to review study progress and addressed managerial and scientific issues as they arose. She also drafted the report.
Stefan Priebe (Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist) conceived and designed the programme.
Michael King (Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry) conceived and designed the programme.
Sandra Eldridge (Professor of Biostatistics) conceived and designed the programme, and oversaw the statistical analysis.
Paul McCrone (Professor of Health Economics) conducted the health economics analyses in WP2 and WP4, and drafted the report.
Geoff Shepherd (Senior Consultant) conceived and designed the programme.
Maurice Arbuthnott (Service User Representative) conceived and designed the programme.
Gerard Leavey (Professor of Mental Health and Wellbeing) conceived and designed the programme.
Sarah Curtis (Professor of Health and Risk) conceived and designed the programme.
Peter McPherson (Research Associate) conceived and designed the programme, and drafted the report.
Sarah Dowling (Programme Manager) managed the day-to-day running of the programme, which was overseen by the PMG. She also drafted the report.
All authors were involved in the interpretation of the data and reviewed and revised the report.
Data-sharing statement
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Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, CCF, NETSCC, PGfAR or the Department of Health and Social Care. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the PGfAR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care.