A Contact-Based Intervention for People Recently Discharged from Inpatient Psychiatric Care: A Pilot Study

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• DG initiated the study, DG, OB, JE, RD, SO'C, WH, and NK contributed to the design of the study, OB collated and analyzed the quantitative data, DG, OB, and AOS carried out the qualitative interviews, SP and AOS analyzed and reported on the qualitative data, all authors contributed to the paper.
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