Project timeline

The below timeline shows Project SAMAs forecasted milestones across its three phases (co-production, feasibility testing, and shared learning).

Year One (2021):

01. Ethical approval
02. Study protocol
03. Conduct umbrella interviews for WP1-4
04. Safeguarding protocol
05. Begin school recruitment
06. Intervention Co-production

WP1 SAMA with Youth

WP2 SAMA with Teachers

WP3 SAMA with Schools

WP4 SAMA with Parents

WP5 Implementation Research

07. Co-production focus groups begin
08. Filming begins
09. Integrated learning
10. Finalise interventions for WP1-5

Year Two (2022):

11. Training of lay counsellors
12. Feasibility study begins for WP1-5 - Intervention Vs. waitlist
13. WP6 Health Economics
14. Filming continues
15. WP7 Research-to-Policy
16. WP8 Film Making and Social Media Campaigns

Year Three (2023):

17. Analysis for WP1-5
18. Film ‘The making of SAMA’
19. Integrated learning
20. Dissemination

For more detail on either the project’s milestones, methods or design, please see our full study protocol.

Full study protocol