parental consent and child assent and who were present at school on the days of the intervention ultimately participated.

Study participants fell into two main categories: Champions (peer educators) and non-Champions. A cohort of participants were trained as peer health educators, or Champions, at each school. In order to select the Champions, all participating students in the ninth standard at each school were first asked on the child assent form whether they were interested in becoming a Champion peer health educator, which would involve learning and teaching a portion of the Girls Health Champions' curriculum to their classmates. The intervention was structured to only train a subset of participants (\~20 students) at each school as Champions. In schools where more than 20 ninth standard students expressed an interest inbecoming Champions, the researchers used random number assignment to select the final roster of Champions from the pool of interested students.

The second main category of participants were the non-Champions. These participants learned the Girls Health Champions curriculum directly from the students at their school who were trained as Champions. Non-Champions participants included the eighth standard and tenth standard students, as well as the ninth standard students who either did not indicate an interest in becoming a Champion or who were not randomly selected from the pool of interested students to become Champions. Demographics between Champions and non-Champions were presumably similar given that all students were from the same school and surrounding communities.

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At each school, following the selection of the Champions, each Champion was provided a printed copy