Measuring the Effect of the Early assessment Team (MEET) for patients referred to outpatient mental health care: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe project is and will continue to be conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. We obtain informed written consent from all participants. The study was approved by the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics North Norway (ID nr: 244508 REKNord) and registered in Clinical Trials (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05087446). The study does and will follow current procedures at St. Olav’s Hospital to safeguard privacy in clinical research studies. The study is approved by the institution responsible according to the GDPR.We do not consider that participation entails risk for the patients, and participation in the study will not affect their right to health care. Participants can withdraw from the study at any time without negative consequences concerning their health care. Consent for publicationNot applicable for the study protocol. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Norwegian University of Science and Technology The development of this protocol is funded by the St. Olav’s University Hospital. The project has received funding from Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), Central Norway Regional Health Authority (RHA), the Norwegian Medical Association and the Department of Psychology and the Department of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)."

"Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05087446. Registered on 21 October 2021."