Table 1. Participant socio-demographic characteristics and SRH behaviors at baseline.
Control [N = 1,200] | Intervention [N = 1,172] | Total [N = 2,372] | ||
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N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
City | Ouagadougou | 600 (50.0%) | 572 (48.8%) | 1,172 (49.4%) |
Bobo-Dioulasso | 600 (50.0%) | 600 (51.2%) | 1,200 (50.6%) | |
School | Private | 900 (75.0%) | 872 (74.4%) | 1,772 (74.7%) |
Public | 300 (25.0%) | 300 (25.6%) | 600 (25.3%) | |
Grade | 4ème | 587 (48.9%) | 505 (43.1%) | 1,092 (46.0%) |
3ème | 613 (51.1%) | 667 (56.9%) | 1,280 (54.0%) | |
Age | 14 | 206 (17.2%) | 247 (21.1%) | 453 (19.1%) |
15 | 279 (23.3%) | 281 (24.0%) | 560 (23.6%) | |
16 | 269 (22.4%) | 275 (23.5%) | 544 (22.9%) | |
17 | 232 (19.3%) | 197 (16.8%) | 429 (18.1%) | |
18 | 214 (17.8%) | 172 (14.7%) | 386 (16.3% | |
Wealth | Lowest | 267 (22.3%) | 245 (20.9%) | 512 (21.6%) |
Middle-low | 274 (22.8%) | 236 (20.1%) | 510 (21.5%) | |
Middle | 226 (18.8%) | 229 (19.5%) | 455 (19.2%) | |
Middle-high | 220 (18.3%) | 231 (19.7%) | 41 (19.0%) | |
Highest | 213 (17.8%) | 231 (19.7%) | 444 (18.7%) | |
Behaviors | ||||
% reporting they are currently sexually active | 96 (8.0%) | 97 (8.3%) | 193 (8.1%) | |
% reporting ever having had sex | 165 (13.8%) | 169 (14.4%) | 334 (14.1%) | |
% reporting they are currently using contraception | 44 (3.4%) | 46 (3.9%) | 90 (3.8%) |
Standardized wealth quintiles were created using presence or absence of four household assets variables and validated using principal component analysis. As the allocation of schools between arms is carried out randomly, and girls in each schools were randomly selected, any differences that do occur are assumed to be by chance.