Figure 1

Intervention group recruitment flow chart. ^a Reasons included: not receiving mentoring (n = 4), received signposting only (n = 3), current inpatient (n = 2), poor mental health (n = 2), not new mentoring client (n = 2), nursing home resident (n = 1), did not want to meet researcher (n = 1) ^b This figure equates to the 195 'matched' controls in Figure 2. Three intervention participants declined follow-up resulting in their matched controls being reassigned to another intervention group participant.