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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Educ. 2011 Feb;11(1):27–46. doi: 10.1080/14681811.2011.538146

Table 5.

Secondary outcome results for male fifth-grade and sixth-grade students, unadjusted mean scores (and standard deviations); adjusted p values from models.

Intervention males Control males Adjusted p value

5th BL 5th FU 6th BL 6th FU 5th BL 5th FU 6th BL 6th FU

n =141 n =129 n =168 n =122 n =121 n =110 n =137 n =133
Favors abstinence 64.3 (29.7) 57.4 (30.7) 53.8 (28.2) 50.1 (28.6) 67.3 (26.3) 60.4 (27.4) 54.0 (25.8) 48.4 (27.0) 0.404
Perceives abstinence as peer norm 69.0 (24.6) 63.6 (30.0) 61.3 (25.7) 57.8 (24.8) 69.7 (25.6) 66.0 (26.1) 63.3 (24.8) 57.0 (24.0) 0.163
Communicates with parents 46.8 (31.0) 52.2 (30.0) 46.8 (30.1) 46.0 (27.5) 44.7 (28.2) 47.8 (29.0) 48.8 (30.7) 45.9 (28.5) 0.861
Identifies peer pressure to have sex 77.2 (28.5) 75.0 (31.4) 77.7 (27.8) 69.5 (33.1) 71.7 (31.0) 68.8 (32.6) 75.4 (31.0) 69.9 (30.0) 0.299
Favors use of refusal skills 67.9 (26.7) 64.4 (27.3) 61.4 (26.0) 55.5 (25.9) 66.7 (27.8) 67.2 (28.3) 61.3 (26.4) 55.0 (27.1) 0.758
Benefits of postponing sex 3.0 (2.2) 3.9 (2.5) 3.2 (2.2) 3.9 (2.2) 3.1 (2.4) 3.8 (2.4) 3.2 (2.2) 3.3 (2.3) 0.293
Consequences of having baby in school 0.1 (1.1) 0.5 (1.2) 0.2 (1.1) 0.4 (1.1) 0.2 (1.2) 0.4 (1.2) 0.3 (0.9) 0.5 (1.0) 0.387
Influences on kids to have sex 2.1 (1.7) 2.2 (1.8) 2.2 (1.6) 2.4 (1.7) 1.9 (1.7) 2.3 (1.8) 2.1 (1.5) 2.2 (1.8) 0.635
Knowledge of self/boys’ puberty 3.6 (2.6) 6.4 (2.2) 5.3 (2.7) 6.9 (2.0) 3.9 (2.8) 5.6 (2.5) 5.4 (2.5) 6.2 (2.5) 0.068**
Knowledge of girls’ puberty 3.1 (2.8) 5.8 (2.8) 5.0 (3.0) 6.5 (2.6) 3.7 (3.1) 5.1 (3.0) 4.9 (2.7) 5.6 (2.9) 0.045*

Notes: The means and standard deviations are the unadjusted values; the p-value is the result of the test of significance for the variable, time × membership in intervention or control group, in the linear hierarchical model. BL =baseline; FU =follow-up.

**

p < 0.10.

*

p < 0.05.