Table 1.

Examples of questions and prompts in interviews and focus groups

Peer support worker focus group interviews	Peer support coordinator interview	Peer (service user) interviews
Question: What has been your overall impression of peer support project? Prompt: How do you think it is going? What has been good about it? Have there been any problems? Anything challenging for you?	Question: How do you think the peer support workers are getting on? Prompt: Have there been any particular problems? What aspects have worked well? What do they find most enjoyable? What do they not like?	Question: Can you tell me generally about your experience of peer support? Prompt: Was it helpful or unhelpful at all?
Question: What sort of support are you providing? Prompt: Do you meet up with users? Do you provide telephone support? Recovery work? Anything else?	Question: How do they get on on the wards? Prompt: Do they have any difficulties with the staff at all?	Question: What sort of support did you get from the peer support worker? Prompt: Did you meet up? Did s/he phone you at all? Anything else?
Question: What do you most enjoy doing? Prompt: What parts of the role do you really like? Is there anything you don't like? What aspects of the role do you not enjoy?	Question: What sort of things do they discuss in supervision with you? Prompt: Are there common themes they talk about?	Question: Would you have liked to have had more of anything? Prompt: What sort of thing would you have liked the peer support worker to have done more?
Question: How do you get on with the ward and community team staff? Prompt: Have there been any particular problems? What aspects have worked well?	Question: Are there things we should have covered in the training but didn't? Prompt: Are there things that could have done differently in the training?	Question: How did you feel when the support stopped? Prompt: Did it feel okay or did you miss the extra support? Were you glad it was finished?