Trial of My Vital Cycles (a school-based Whole Person ovulatory-menstrual health literacy program for 13-16 year old females) in Perth Western Australia

Name: My Vital Cycles (an ovulatory menstrual health literacy educational intervention) The materials included workbooks, videos and the website www.myvitalcycles.com These were finalised prior to recruitment. No further changes were made to the program once recruitment had started and the trial was underway. Staffing: Secondary School facilitator of reproductive health with 15 years' experience Conduct of the classes: These were done face-to-face in the Health classes with the teacher and school healthcare professionals present. Frequency: - Program delivery will be once a week for one hour over 16 weeks. Topics covered include: 1. A Whole Person context 2. Knowing the cycle 3. Common cycle difficulties 4. Managing common cycle difficulties 5. Critical reasoning on cycle shame 6. Communicating to health care professionals (including medical students) Location: - Program delivery was classroom based in a secondary school during school hours - Participants initiate one-on-one discussions with school healthcare professionals and the facilitator Note: - The intervention program was uniformly delivered to all participants. There were no changes once the trial began and recruitment was underway. - adherence / fidelity assessment: this is formative research. COREQ is a checklist to report methods, findings, analysis and interpretation [Tong, A., Sainsbury, P., & Craig, J. (2007). Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 19(6), 349-357.] Process evaluation measures will also be established to protect the intervention program integrity. Improvements in participants' ovulatory menstrual health literacy was measured quantitatively with the ovulatory-menstrual health literacy questionnaire administered pre and post intervention.