Bell‐Connecticut.

Methods	Allocation: 'randomised' ‐ method not specified. Follow up: 5 months. Lost to follow‐up: 4%. Objectivity of rating of outcome: independent raters.
Participants	Inclusion criteria: i. diagnosis of schizophrenia or related disorder; ii. stable (no changes in drugs, housing or treatment status in month); iii. no organic brain disease or physical disability. Diagnosis: schizophrenia, schizophrenia‐like disorders (100%). N=150. Age: mean ˜43 years. Sex: 4% women. Race: 31% non‐white. History: ever married U/K, ever employed U/K, time since last employment U/K, previous admissions ˜8.5. Setting: general hospital, Conneticut, USA.
Interventions	1. Sheltered set‐aside jobs in the hospital: i. up to 20 hours/week; ii. paid $3.4/hour; iii. worked alongside regular hospital staff in posts ranging from administrative to portering; iv. attended weekly 50 minute support group. N=80. 2. Control: as above but not paid. N=70. Both groups continued to receive benefit entitlement.
Outcomes	In any type of employment.* Monthly earnings. Not participating in program. Rehospitalised. Mental state: PANSS. Unable to use ‐ Time in any form of employment (not primary or secondary outcome variable).
Notes	* People lost to follow up treated as not working. 6 patients in control group transferred to half‐way house and excluded because it had its own work program ‐ treated as working and as not dropping out.
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment?	Unclear risk	B ‐ Unclear