HOPE: Help fOr People with money, employment, benefit or housing problems: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Table 2 HOPE pilot eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria	18 + years
	Men and women
	People who have self-harmed and/or are in psychological distress but do not meet the criteria for secondary mental health care referral of continuing help by support agencies
	People whose psychosocial assessment indicates that job loss, difficulties finding a job, benefit changes and/or sanctions (actual or fear of changes and sanctions), housing problems or debt and economic hardship as a result of financial problems were a contributory factor to their distress/self-harm
Exclusion criteria	People referred for secondary care specialist psychiatric community or inpatient services
	People with a support worker delivering similar or same support as HOPE workers
	People experiencing a psychotic episode, have thought-disorder or who are unable to give consent
	People with addiction as their primary problem
	People not fluent in English (due to insufficient funding for translation services)
	People living outside of the catchment area for the HOPE service

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