2.4.1. Intervention arm I
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To facilitate adolescents' life skills development, we conducted a facility-based baseline survey to identify adolescents' status of SRH life skills and categorize factors that predict appropriate SRH life skills development. The school-linked life skills intervention program addressed the identified gaps and factors that enhance SRH life skills development. Nearly all adolescents received school-linked life skills intervention program packages provided at three platforms such as age-relevant SRH education, life skill training, and reproductive health clubs. The experimental group participated in a school-linked life skills intervention program included 40 sessions, each lasting 20 min (totaling 26 h), from November 2020 until May 2021. The intervention targeted three categories of primary life skills outcomes: Life Skills for Self-Understanding and Self-Management, Life Skills for Knowing and Living with Others, and Life Skills for Dealing with Issues and Problems. Adolescents in the trial schools attended the training consisting of 20-min sessions, five times a month for 6 consecutive months.