Baseline socio-demographic characteristics
Of the participants who completed the trial, the majority, 82 (30.50%) were aged 18 in the intervention group, and 68 (24.46%) were aged 17 in the control group, while among the least frequent age groups, 35 (13%) were 15 in the intervention group, and 41 (14.75%) were in the 19 in the control group. About 28% percent of the intervention participants and 39.93% of the control participants were 9th grade, while 22.32% of the intervention and 14.75% of the control participants were in the 12th grade. About one-third of the intervention and below one-fifth of the control participants were permanent urban dwellers and about two-thirds of the intervention and half the control participants were temporary urban dwellers. Concerning participants’ history of school club participation, 189 (70.31%) of participants in the intervention group and 218 (78.41%) of the participants in the control group reported that they had previously participated in at least one school club activity (Table Baseline socio-demographic characteristics of female adolescents in Northwest Ethiopia, 2022 (