EQUITy

A guide to what's involved

As part of the trial, services will be randomly allocated to either receive the EQUITy intervention package or to be a “control” site (i.e. not receive the intervention and continue to deliver care as usual). Service involvement will last approximately 12 months and involves:

• Recruitment to our ‘enriched patient sample’ – we aim to recruit 100 patients from each service. This will involve sending invitations (prepared by the research team) to all patients allocated to telephone treatment as close to their initial appointment as possible. We estimate the time commitment involved in sending invitations will be around 2-4 hours over 6 months.                                                                                                               
• Collection of routine IAPT data – we will be collecting this for both before and after the EQUITy intervention. Services will be asked to provide this to us in an anonymised format.

In addition, sites who are allocated to the intervention arm with receive the ‘EQUITy Intervention Package’ which involves:

1.  A one-day team workshop – introducing the EQUITy intervention, via Zoom or Teams
2.  Practitioner telephone training – two training sessions via Zoom or Teams
3.  A follow-up meeting with the action plan lead to discuss implementation progress (further meetings are offered if required)
4.  Distribution of resources for patients –provided to sites in either electronic and/or hard-copy form
5.  Qualitative interviews – team members and patients will be invited to provide their feedback.