Table 4 Students’ HIV/AIDS knowledge, preventive reproductive health skills, self-efficacy, intention to use condoms at baseline, and 6-month follow-up

Sample size

885

984

HIV/AIDS knowledge (scores 0–15)

8.00 (3.62)

10.25 (3.04)

7.98

< 0.001

Preventative reproductive health skills (scores 0–6)

3.60 (1.61)

3.98 (1.57)

2.90

0.004

Self-efficacy (scores 0–3)

2.27 (1.10)

2.72 (0.99)

5.48

< 0.001

Intention to use protection (scores 1–5)

2.62 (1.97)

3.41 (1.89)

4.99

< 0.001