Table 1. Summarising participant characteristics.

Participant code	Gender; Age at interview	Ethnicity	Marital status	Employment status	Recorded diagnosis	DES-II score
1	M; 16	White British	Single	Student	Psychosis NOS (First Episode)	47.14
2	M; 55	White British	Single	Voluntary work	Schizoaffective Disorder	7.14
3	M; 29	White British	Married	Self-Employed	Schizophrenia	50.71
4	F; 27	White British	Married	Housewife	Schizophrenia	9.29
5	M; 40	White British	Single	Unemployed	Schizophrenia	34.29
6	M; 64	White British	Single	Retired	Schizophrenia	42.86
7	M; 18	British Asian	Single	Student	Psychosis NOS (First Episode)	33.21
8	F; 33	White British	Single	Unemployed	Schizoaffective Disorder	52.86
9	M; 42	White British	Single	Self-Employed	Paranoid Schizophrenia	38.93
10	M; 47	White British	Single	Unemployed	Paranoid Schizophrenia	51.43
11	F; 21	White British	Single	Student	Unspecified Inorganic Psychosis	68.57
12	F; 43	Mixed: Irish & African	Single	Unemployed	Schizophrenia	6.43