Delivery of prevail
The Prevail Intervention programme consists of a series of nine modules taking a mainly didactic approach to learning, but with many interactive components and case study discussions to enhance participant engagement. The modules consist of lectures on specific topics (e.g. Module 5 “Stress and Emotional Stress”) that introduce the topic, give examples of these problems, and provides psychoeducation about the evidence-based approaches to reduce the problem or deal with more serious difficulties in this area. The lecture materials are complemented with video case study examples (produced within the DVLA in this instance), group activities, group discussions, and revision quiz(s). The Prevail Manager’s Intervention uses a similar approach.A Train the Trainer approach [Delivery of the Prevail Staff Intervention to those in the active group commenced on the 30th October 2019. Fifty-seven staff cohorts received the Prevail programme via group-based intervention (N = 571). The cohorts consisted of staff teams with other colleagues working in the same division, and where possible with the same manager. Where staff were unable to attend the allocated day of Prevail delivery they were individually re-scheduled to attend another session. Some staff teams were split over two days to accommodate working patterns.The Prevail Managers Intervention programme was delivered by the authors of Prevail (NSG, RJS) jointly with the Head of Talent and Learning at DVLA over three sessions to the 38 managers that had been allocated to the intervention arm of the study (commencing October 2019). It was important that there was a close association between the delivery of the Prevail Staff Intervention and the Prevail Managers Intervention as, if our intervention was successful in its aims of reducing stigma and enhancing help-seeking, the managers had to be ready and skilled to address the issues of staff as they arose. Eleven other senior managers also attended one of these sessions in order to become familiar with the intervention and aims of the Prevail programme.