Table 4.

Social participation outcomes for participants in the M-ComConnect program (phase 1).

Participant	Social activity participation after intervention	Participant reflection (quotes)
Sarah	Continued to attend writing group Commenced singing lessons	The confidence has given me more umph, and it said “Okay, well I can do and I will do” and I guess it means that one day I will be able to do something on my own. And yeah, so it's given me the “I can do and I will do.”
Roger	Tried a different bible studies group	Probably made me more light-hearted, more light-hearted because... I wanted to get out there, and so me having done that probably helped me more than the listeners... just got something off my chest (Roger on giving his talk about himself).
Mitch	Continued to podcast	I had good input at every stage, and I never felt railroaded or pushed into a corner. At every stage it was my choice on what to do and how to do it, and that's important.
Herman	Joined a poetry group	I was recognized as a viable input… I'm used to be sort of head-injured and sort of at the last, but with this group I sort of felt to be sort of in a better role there…a role of wisdom…I felt elevated because I was just sort of a..er..a viable source of the work we were doing.
Linda	Continued to attend bowling group	Well, just getting to know them and having a little chat sometimes.
		After a while, people get to know you, and they'll say, “Hello Linda” and that, and then sometimes it takes me a while to get to know people's names.
Bob	Discontinued walking group due to ill	It was good.
	health.	Educating me around what's healthy and what's not… it stayed with me… it's stuck in the memory bank.
Jonathon	Continued to attend the community support group	I just felt more confident… to be able to have a conversation about something… that I've experienced.
Liam	Co-presented at an allied health special interest group	There's people…like twenty or something…and there's cool…and there's ages they're the same (Liam talking about presenting at the special interest group).
Paul	Continued to use Photo365	It was good… I liked it…. I'm used to it now.
Simon	Continued to attend music group	I feel there's so much more potential that Simon can reach.
	Support workers continued with intervention plan	I think how wonderful it would be, he loves dancing, he loves you know music, things like that, like how cool would it be if he could go to a movie with a friend or something and we just wait…just being able to do something without having to have me or anybody else? (Quotes from support worker).

N.B. Covid restrictions prevented longer term participation in the activity of choice for some participants.