Acknowledgements
SCHMIDT, RECRUITMENT
We would like to thank our Participant and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) group, all the participants who participated in the trial, their families, and our community engagement officers. We want to thank our Trial Steering Committee (Chair Prof David Kingdon, Members: Trial Statistician – RE, Service user representative – SK, Funder observer—Mary Desilva) and Data Management and Ethics Committee (DMEC) (independent statisticians – Kimberley Goldsmith, clinicians – Prof Mowadat H Rana, Dr Rashid Qadir).We are thankful to authors Ulrike Schmidt and Kate Davidson for allowing us to translate, culturally adapt and use the self-help manual “Life after Self-Harm a Guide to the Future” as well as to the Manual Translation and Cultural Adaptation group of the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL). We want to thank all the nurses, GPs, clinicians, heads of emergency departments, psychiatry and medical units of participating hospitals for their support in the screening and recruitment of participants for the trial. We would also like to thank all researchers and therapists involved throughout the trial (Ameer B Khoso, Shafaq Ijaz, Maham Rasheed, Majid Sanjrani, Ghulam Qadir, Sehrish Irshad, Zaib un Nisa, Tahira Khalid, Farooq Ahemd, Samia Shahid, Humera Khalid, Rab Dino, Rabia Sattar, Maheshwari Bebo, Sanum Hakro, Akhtar Zaman, Nawaz Khan, Muqaddas Jabeen, Shoaib Khalid, Raja M. Talha, Muhammad Asif, Maria Usman, Sana Farooque, Raheel Ahmed, Farhat ul Ain, Nayab Zafar, Mahum Izhar, Asif Ali (late), Ali Raza, Hadiyya tur Rehman, Muqaddas Asif, Farhat ul Ain, Qurat ul ain, Mehak Bano, Junaid Ikhlaq, Zainab Bibi, Umair Ahsan, Hira Jaffer, Sanaullah Kakar, Faster Gill, Summaiya Shahid, Uzma Attique Khan, Farah Naz, Shahida Kausar, Raees Jokhio, Bano, Nimra, Mehreen Khan, Najma Aziz). Special thanks to Sami Ansari – data manager.