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Scale Qual Research: adolescent school mental health
A PLOS One study protocol (published 16 July 2026) lays out a sequential explanatory mixed-methods plan to develop a quality-improvement intervention for School-Based Support Teams (SBSTs) in Gauteng secondary schools. The protocol combines a cross-sectional survey (target n = 440 from an estimated 6, 042 learners), a scoping review (2015 to 2025 literature), and 20 SBST interviews, then pilots a pre–post intervention. This post provides a compact workflow for running the qualitative parts (from interview collection to thematic, frequency, and cross-segment analysis) and explains how AI-enabled research workspaces can speed each step while preserving ethics and data security. See the protocol: PLOS One. Note: this is research-focused guidance, not clinical advice.
In this article
- Key Takeaways
- Findings snapshot (protocol key numbers)
- What the protocol does (methods in plain English)
- Why this matters for qualitative researchers and program teams
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