Chinman 2017.

Trial name or title	Provision of peer specialist services in VA patient‐aligned care teams
Methods	Allocation: cluster‐randomised Blindness: open‐label Duration: 1 year Location: US
Participants	Diagnosis: mental illness, physical illness n = 25 Age: child, adult, senior Sex: both History: not stated Exclusion criteria: non‐VA patient aligned care teams, VA sites without an existing peer specialists, and VA patient aligned primary care teams that cannot commit a peer specialist to primary care for a minimum of 10 hours per week.
Interventions	Group 1: facilitated implementation: facilitated implementation sites will receive 1 year of support based on the i‐PARIHS implementation model which includes training, implementation planning, ongoing external facilitation, feedback and consultation Group 2: standard implementation: standard Implementation sites will receive written guidance and limited consultation by the investigators' team
Outcomes	Primary outcome: patient activation measure change Secondary outcomes: team development measure change, organisational readiness for change, peer fidelity measure change, the satisfaction Index‐Mental health change
Starting date	1 January 2016
Contact information	Chinman@rand.org
Notes	Funding sources: all the authors are funded by a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs (QUERI): QUERI for Team‐Based Behavioral Health (1IP1HX001979‐01): Evaluation of Peer Specialists on VA PACT. Protocol, full characteristics and outcome data not reported.