5. Checklist for student focus group

A) Background

1. Date of interview: _______________________________________________________________

2. School/district: _________________________________________________________________

3. Teacher: ______________________________________________________________________

4. Number of students in the group: (male/female) _______________________________________

B) Activities

1. Speaking generally: What did you think of the HIV/AIDS/STD Programme activities? What did you like and/or dislike?
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2. Do you remember the four steps to an assertive message? What are they?
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3. How did you find practising how to deliver an assertive message?
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4. How did you feel about the condom activities? What did you learn from doing them?
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5. What did you think about the discrimination and compassion activities towards the end of the programme? What did you learn from them?
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6. How did you feel about the parent activities (if activities were done with parents)? Was it the first time you talked about those topics with your parents or other relatives?
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7. Do you think your parents learned anything about HIV/AIDS?
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8. Were there any activities you really liked? If so, which ones and why?
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9. a) Were there any activities you really disliked? Which ones and why?
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b) If yes, how would you change the activity to make it better?
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10. What about the situations (scenarios) within the activities - were they useful? Did you feel they were realistic/may happen to you or your friends?
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11. Were you able to read and understand the language? Was it too difficult? Was it too easy?
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C) Peer leaders (if used)

1. What did you think about the use of peer leaders in the programme? Were they helpful? Were they used too much/too little?
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2. Were the peer leaders well chosen?
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3. Would you have liked to be a peer leader? Why?
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4. Would you change anything about the peer leader role to make them more useful?
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D) Overall evaluation

1. Do you think you can now protect yourself from HIV/AIDS/STD? How? What about in the future?
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2. Did you talk about HIV/AIDS/STD with your friends? With your boy/girlfriend? With friends who did not have such a programme? With siblings or cousins? In your church youth group?
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3. Do you have any other comments to add? (e.g. - were there any aspects which really bothered you about the programme that you haven’t already mentioned? Were there other aspects which you were pleased about?)
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