Procedure
SECONDARY
Baseline mental health literacy measures were collected from both active and control schools. This wave occurred approximately one week before the schoolteachers in the active group were trained on administering the Guide Cymru. The ‘Go-To’ Guide training involves a two-day teaching session for teachers to become familiar with the materials and improve their own mental health training. Teachers would then deliver the intervention programme to their Year 9 pupils over the following 10 to 12 weeks. The control school was tested the same day as their yoked active school.Wave two occurred 1–2 weeks after the delivery of the Guide Cymru for the students in the active arm of the study. The control school(s) was evaluated on the same day as their yoked active school(s). Data was due to be collected in a third wave at 12 weeks post intervention. However, due to the closure of secondary schools to the Covid-19 pandemic this third wave of data could not be collected. Data collection took place face to face during lesson time within each secondary school. The PhD student and a member of staff from Action for Children completed data collection.