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Table 2 Trial outcomes

From: Community youth teams facilitating participatory adolescent groups, youth leadership activities and livelihood promotion to improve school attendance, dietary diversity and mental health among adolescent girls in rural eastern India: protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Primary outcomes

 1

Percentage of adolescent girls attending school or college

 2

Mean dietary diversity score, based on 24-h recall

 3

Mean score on the Brief Problem Monitor–Youth

Secondary outcomes

 1

Percentage of girls making decisions independently and with others about the food they eat, including how much they eat and what types of food they eat

 2

Mean score on gender role attitudes index

 3

Percentage of girls making decisions independently and with others about friends, spending money and purchases

 4

Mean score on the Schwarzer General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale

 5

Mean score on the Child and Youth Resilience Measure 11-item version (CYRM-B)

 6

Percentage of girls who report experiencing emotional violence in the past 12 months

 7

Percentage of girls who report experiencing physical violence in the past 12 months

 8

Percentage of girls who report intervening to reduce emotional violence against their peers in the past 12 months

 9

Percentage of girls who report intervening to reduce physical violence against their peers in the past 12 months

 10

Percentage of girls who report being absent from school in the past 2 weeks

 11

Percentage of girls accessing at least one school-related entitlement (cash, bicycles, books, midday meal scheme)

 12

Percentage of girls who drank alcohol in the past month

Tertiary outcomes

 1

Percentage of girls who took at least four iron and folic acid supplements in the past month

 2

Percentage of girls aged 15–19 and all married girls who have correct knowledge about the contraceptive pill, condoms and the IUD

 3

Percentage of girls who use sanitary napkins or clean cloths during their period

 4

Percentage of girls aged 15–19 and all married girls who know that abortion is legal

 5

Percentage of girls who have received take home rations in the past month

 6

Percentage of girls underweight (less than −2 SD median BMI for age and sex)

 7

Percentage of girls stunted (less than −2 SD median height for age and sex)

 8

Mean MUAC score

  1. BMI body mass index, IUD intra-uterine device, MUAC Mid Upper Arm Circumference