Table 1.

Demographic and clinical variables for participants who accepted (n = 153) and declined (n = 152) ESM

Variable		ESM %	No ESM %
Gender	Male	39.22	44.08
	Female	56.86	55.26
	Non-binary	2.61	−
	Prefer not to say	1.31	0.66
Ethnicity	White British	73.86	73.03
	Black (African or Caribbean)	9.80	7.89
	Mixed heritage	4.58	5.92
	South Asian (Indian or Pakistani)	2.61	1.97
	Other	9.15	10.53
Relationship status	Single	58.17	65.13
	Cohabiting/Married/Civil partnership	30.07	21.71
	Separated/Divorced/Widowed	11.11	12.50
	Prefer not to say	0.65	0.66
Education	Primary education	2.61	2.63
	Secondary education	30.72	43.42
	Vocational education/college	39.22	26.61
	Higher education	22.88	19.08
	Other	2.61	0.66
	Prefer not to say	1.96	3.95
Employment status	Working	17.65	7.24
	Studying	4.58	5.92
	Volunteering	4.58	3.95
	Caregiver	−	1.32
	Retired	1.96	−
	Not currently working	69.93	82.24
	Prefer not to say	1.31	1.32
Schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis (F20-29; ICD-10)	Schizophrenia (F20)	15.03	23.68
	Persistent delusional disorder (F22)	1.31	1.32
	Schizoaffective disorder (F25)	9.80	15.79
	Other nonorganic psychotic disorder (F28)	30.72	17.76
	Unspecified nonorganic psychosis (F29)	43.14	41.45
Hears voicesa		81.70	78.29
Sees visionsa		63.40	53.95
Antipsychotic prescription		81.05	75.66
ITQ Diagnosis	None	8.55	14.09
	PTSD	8.55	8.72
	cPTSD	82.89	77.18
Other diagnoses	Anxiety disorders (Generalized anxiety, OCD, Other anxiety disorders)	15.69	19.08
	Autism	7.84	1.97
	Bipolar	6.54	9.87
	Depression (with or without psychotic features)	37.91	26.97
	Personality disorders (including emotionally unstable and other personality disorders)	30.07	22.37
	Substance-related disorders	6.54	9.21
	Other (e.g. ADHD, eating disorders, severe stress, and adjustment disorder)	9.80	12.50
Multiple trauma exposure	Repeated events (at least 1 TALE item endorsed ‘more than once’)	100	100
	Multiple trauma types	100	100
Trauma timing	Child (endorsed any TALE item < 16)	92.81	95.39
	Adult (endorsed any TALE item 16 or over)	95.42	94.74
	Both (endorsed any TALE item < 16 AND 16 or over)	88.24	86.84
		M(s.d.)	M(s.d.)
Age		37.00(12.14)	40.73(12.50)
Number of trauma typesb		11.52(3.20)	11.16(3.12)
ITQ-PTSD		17.93(4.16)	17.34(4.51)
ITQ-DSO		18.63(4.52)	18.13(4.80)
GPTS-Persecution		23.25(11.38)	23.39(12.19)
PSYRATS-Visions		30.82(5.93)	30.24(6.26)
PSYRATS-Voices		30.81(5.88)	31.98(4.54)

ESM, Experience Sampling Methodology; M, Mean; s.d., Standard Deviation; PTSD, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; DSO, Disturbances of Self-Organisation; ICD-10, International Classification of Disease 10th Ed.; ITQ, International Trauma Questionnaire (Cloitre et al., 2018); OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; ADHD, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder; GPTS, Green et al., Paranoid Thoughts Scale (Freeman et al., 2021); PSYRATS, Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales (Haddock et al., 1999); TALE, Trauma and Life Events checklist (Carr et al., 2018).

^aBased on baseline PSYRATS data.

^bBased on baseline TALE data.