Table 2.
Descriptive results of knowledge and life orientation class engagement by province and intervention group among girls and boys in grade 10 surveyed in 2018 from Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
| Mpumalanga | KwaZulu-Natal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 10 Girls | Grade 10 Boys | Grade 10 Girls | Grade 10 Boys | |||||
| I | C | I | C | I | C | I | C | |
| KNOWLEDGE - Respondents indicated correctly whether the following statements are true or false, % | ||||||||
| You can usually tell if someone has HIV/AIDS by the way they look. (FALSE) | 64.3 | 62.3 | 57.0 | 55.9 | 61.6 | 62.2 | 56.4 | 56.0 |
| Oral sex poses no risk for STIs. (FALSE) | 48.4 | 53.7* | 48.1 | 47.9 | 40.0 | 44.8* | 41.5 | 41.5 |
| You can get HIV from kissing a person who is HIV-positive. (FALSE) | 77.5 | 75.6 | 69.5 | 69.4 | 72.5 | 75.4 | 67.2 | 69.4 |
| A woman who is pregnant can do nothing to prevent her baby from being born with HIV. (FALSE) | 64.5 | 64.7 | 55.4 | 49.8* | 59.3 | 62.8 | 49.3 | 54.9* |
| GENDER ATTITUDES - Respondents agreed a lot with the following statements, % | ||||||||
| It is the man who decides when to have sex. | 20.6 | 19.8 | 33.7 | 33.8 | 12.8 | 16.5* | 28.2 | 27.3 |
| A man needs other women even if things with his wife/partner are fine. | 41.7 | 42.9 | 42.0 | 40.2 | 32.9 | 34.9 | 32.7 | 32.1 |
| PARTICIPATION IN LO CLASS - Respondent indicated the following occurs sometimes or most of the time (reference category is not at all), % | ||||||||
| I participate in class discussions in LO | 95.6 | 94.2 | 92.4 | 91.1 | 92.6 | 93.2 | 92.6 | 93.3 |
| I ask teachers questions during LO | 87.5 | 84.0* | 84.9 | 83.0 | 80.7 | 82.8 | 80.7 | 82.8 |
| I listen to what the teacher is teaching in LO | 97.3 | 97.1 | 94.7 | 94.9 | 95.5 | 95.1 | 95.5 | 95.1 |
| I am motivated to learn about LO | 96.2 | 97.6* | 92.9 | 94.8 | 93.0 | 93.6 | 93.0 | 93.6 |
| I put time & effort into doing LO assignments/studying for tests | 96.2 | 96.3 | 91.4 | 93.1 | 92.9 | 92.0 | 92.9 | 92.0 |
| PERSPECTIVE OF LO TEACHER - Respondent indicated the following is mostly true or very true (reference category is not true or a little true), % | ||||||||
| My LO teacher encourages students to learn material | 75.2 | 74.6 | 73.5 | 71.1 | 75.6 | 73.6 | 75.6 | 73.6 |
| My LO teacher understands material he/she presents | 80.4 | 80.0 | 75.2 | 75.0 | 80.5 | 77.6 | 80.5 | 77.6 |
| My LO teacher wants all students to feel respected | 91.0 | 89.1 | 84.5 | 84.0 | 85.3 | 83.9 | 85.3 | 83.9 |
I – Intervention group; C – Control group
*
p ≤ 0.05
**
p ≤ 0.01
**
p ≤ 0.001: for F-test of differences between intervention and control group.