Baseline Measures and Sociodemographic Items
psychosis
Six measures were collected at baseline in both trials. Eleven sociodemographic items were collected in both trials. An additional service use item was collected in the NEON Trial. All data were collected through online forms with automated validation of responses. These forms are described in The outcomes assessed through the collected measures were quality of life, psychological distress, hope, self-efficacy, meaning in life (presence and search), and health status. Quality of life was assessed using the Manchester Short Assessment (MANSA), which comprises 12 subjective items self-rated on a Likert scale ranging from 1 to 7. The MANSA score is the mean, ranging from 1 (low quality of life) to 7 (high quality of life). The MANSA has adequate psychometric properties [The demographic items were as follows: age (in years), gender (female, male, and other), ethnicity, region of residence, highest educational qualification, lifetime use of primary care mental health services, lifetime use of specialist mental health services, current use of mental health services in relation to psychosis (NEON Trial only), main mental health problem in last month, best description of recovery status, residential status, and employment status. Response options for ethnicity and highest educational qualification followed UK Office for National Statistics guidance for England [Q6: Have you ever (including currently) used primary care mental health services, e.g. had support or medication prescribed by your GP [general practitioner] for mental health issues, seen a GP practice counsellor, or used the Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme?Q7: Have you ever (including currently) used specialist mental healthcare services, e.g. a community mental health team, mental health in-patient ward?Q8: [NEON Trial only] Which of the following best describes the current contact you have with the NHS about your experiences of psychosis? (No contact with any NHS service, Contact with my GP, Contact with primary care counsellor, Contact with Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Contact with a specialist community mental health team, Currently a mental health in-patient in hospital)