Attrition
ATTRITION
The rural and self-contained location of the intervention did not originally raise significant concerns regarding attrition, as the study team felt relatively confident in their ability to track students given normal school operations. However, the school closures and mitigation measures implemented in response to the pandemic resulted in appreciable attrition occurring within the first cluster receiving the intervention. Among the 212 students sampled at baseline in the first cluster that was randomized to the intervention, two students transferred to other schools that will receive the intervention after the baseline observation and were not considered in the present analysis, 60 students did not have an observation beyond baseline, and 71 students had a mid-intervention observation but no 3-month post-intervention observation (see Table Attrition in the first school/cluster randomized to the intervention (