Work Package 5:
Implementation Research
Schools are complex environments, and we need to understand the implementation challenges faced by local teams in local contexts.
Implementation research of school programs in India is rare. Project SAMA aims to promote school research in India and identify implementation facilitators and barriers across our intervention components. Our starting point is our UK-based framework for a whole school mental health intervention, based on the Consolidating Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR).
In Year 1, we will improve the relevance of our CFIR framework to India with implementation evidence from Indian school health programs. This refined framework will include the required training and support of lay counsellors as key implementation personnel, will guide full intervention implementation, and will constitute our hypotheses about the determinants of implementation success.
In Year 2, outputs from the year one workshops will inform a testable framework for our study in Year 2. Following a published protocol, we will utilise action research to test the usefulness and acceptability of the framework, whilst also aiming to solve real-time implementation challenges as they arise and sharing community-led implementation solutions across participating schools during the project. We will quantify implementation achievements in each school, and via process evaluations, will learn what actions were associated with success.
In Year 3, we will produce a refined implementation framework to guide and test in future work.
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