Step 4: Yima Nkqo manual development
Following our qualitative study and the development of our theory of change, the development of Yima Nkqo began in June 2019. Team members, including the study coordinator (ER), research assistants and qualitative interviewers (RJ, SS), intervention facilitators (NS, PF), and qualitative analysis leader (MFN) convened in Cape Town for two full days of participatory workshops, with additional support and guidance from intervention design leader (LB) and study PIs (ITK, LGB). The team’s goal was to synthesize the formative work to date in order to co-design a draft of the Yima Nkqo intervention manual, focusing on both intervention skills and intervention content. To guide this work, we drew on facilitator communication skills described in prior group health and wellbeing interventions [