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Purpose

This presentation introduces Re: MIX, a comprehensive in-school sexual health education and youth development curriculum for adolescents. Young parents serve as peer educators and teach alongside professional health educators to deliver information via non-traditional approaches, including game-based tools, technology and storytelling. Re: MIX challenges participants to re-think traditional gender norms regarding masculinity, femininity, and genders’ impact on reproductive health outcomes, including unplanned teenage pregnancy. The presentation will describe the curriculum, student characteristics, the randomized-control trial design, and implementation findings. We will also present impact findings on short-term mediating outcomes for Re: MIX, including sexual behavior intentions, contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy.

Methods

The study design was a cluster randomized …