Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MR/KD06665/1)
Article History
Received: 15 June 2018
Accepted: 10 December 2018
First Online: 21 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was granted from Cambridge South Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 14/EE/0059) and all participants were asked to provide written consent prior to interviews being conducted.
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: NB is a researcher on a trial delivering a smartphone app for psychosis; SB and FL are both principal- and co-investigators on trials delivering digital health interventions for severe mental health problems. SB is a director of Affigo CIC, a not-for-profit social enterprise company spun out of the University of Manchester in December 2015 to enable access to social enterprise funding and to promote ClinTouch, a symptom-monitoring app, to the NHS and public sector.
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