Narrative Experiences Online Study
psychotic disorder, cognitive difficulties, paranoid, psychosis, DHIs, tactile hallucinations
RECRUITMENT
The Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) study [A specific consideration for mental health RCTs with open recruitment is whether participants with different histories of mental health service use have different characteristics at baseline. Some differences between service users and nonservice users can influence the change created by DHIs; hence, research should systematically examine these differences to inform the development and evaluation of DHIs. For psychosis, existing evidence raises the possibility of differences in symptomatology between people who have used specialist mental health services and those who have not. A study comparing current service users diagnosed with a psychotic disorder with people reporting persistent psychosis experiences and no history of service use found that the people in the latter group were less paranoid, with fewer cognitive difficulties and more intense somatic or tactile hallucinations [