Participant characteristics
SECONDARY, RECRUITMENT
We invited 49 trial participants to take part in qualitative interviews. Thirteen declined to participate or did not answer recruitment calls, with the remaining 36 completing an interview at either the 3‐month or the 6‐month follow‐up, one person requested to be interviewed at both the 3‐ and 6‐month follow‐up time points. The mean age of the participants was 36.89 years (range: 20–65), 19/36 (53%) were female and the majority were White (92%) (Table Clinical and demographic characteristics of the participantsAbbreviation: GCSE, general certificate of secondary education (public exams in UK taken around age 16).Participants could have had more than one comorbid health condition.We identified four themes and nine subthemes (Table Themes and subthemesAbbreviations: COM‐B, Capability, Opportunity and Motivation Model of Behaviour; IAPT, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.