Gantt chart timeline
| Milestone no. | Milestones | Year 1 | Year 2 | ||||||
| Start date–end date | Start date–end date | ||||||||
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | ||
| Milestone 1: Recruiting and training of peer support workers and trainee in psychiatry | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Advertising and assembling of peer support workers and recruitment of trainee in psychiatry (the latter will support the research/evaluation components of the project). | ||||||||
| 1.2 | Training of peer support workers and the trainee in psychiatry. | ||||||||
| 1.3 | Development of a bank of supportive text messages in collaboration with service users and mental health therapists. | ||||||||
| Milestone 2: The recruitment of study participants | |||||||||
| 2.1 | Recruitment, baseline assessment, randomisation. | ||||||||
| 2.2 | Assignment into one of the four arms of the study. | ||||||||
| 2.3 | Provision of peer support and delivery of supportive text messages to participants in three arms of the study (ie, not the usual care group). | ||||||||
| Milestone 3: Follow-up assessment of study participants and collection of administrative data | |||||||||
| 3.1 | Follow-up assessments of individual study participants (excluding satisfaction surveys). | ||||||||
| 3.2 | Follow-up satisfaction survey of participants in all groups. | ||||||||
| 3.3 | Collection of administrative data related to health services utilisation. | ||||||||
| Milestone 4: Data compilation, analysis and preparation of reports, publications and presentations for multi-cale dissemination | |||||||||
| 4.1 | Data compilation. | ||||||||
| 4.2 | Data analysis. | ||||||||
| 4.3 | Preparation of reports, publications and presentations. | ||||||||