Extended Evaluation of School-based Health Promotion Programmes in Bihar, India

"SEHER Intervention The SEHER intervention will be delivered by a trained teacher, called as Teacher-as-SEHER Mitra (Mitra meaning friend) or lay health worker called as SEHER Mitra being trained to facilitate following activitiesAwareness generation activities for all stakeholders in school; Wall-magazine, Speak-out box, Competitions, School Health Promotion Committee, School health policies, Peer groups of students of class IX and X students, Workshops and talks for all the students from standard IX, and for teachers, and Counselling and referral services for all the students in the school.~This intervention will be delivered in each school over the academic year."

"The SEHER intervention will be delivered by a lay health worker called as SEHER Mitra being trained to facilitate following activities: Awareness generation activities for all stakeholders in school; Wall-magazine, Speak-out box, Competitions, School Health Promotion Committee, School health policies, Peer groups of students of class IX and X students, Workshops and talks for all the students from standard IX, and for teachers, and Counselling and referral services for all the students in the school.~This intervention will be delivered in each school over the academic year."

The comparison arm involves 'usual care' which in the study setting is the Tarang: Adolescence Education Programme comprising of 16 classroom sessions on process of growing-up, prevention of HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), and prevention of substance and other drug abuse. This programme is delivered by a trained nodal teacher in the school over the academic year.