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Multi-Component Solar Protection Interventions: The Impact of Modelling and “Trickle Down”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Christopher J. Gregory ,
Nick Higginbotham  and
John D. Shea
Christopher J. Gregory*
Affiliation:
Psychology and Cancer, P.O. Box 152, Waratah NSW, AUSTRALIA
Nick Higginbotham
Affiliation:
Community Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology, University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
John D. Shea
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
*
Psychology and Cancer, P. O. Box 152, Waratah, NSW, Australia
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Abstract

Workers in outdoor occupations routinely face unavoidable exposure to the sun's ultra violet rays with attendant risk of skin cancer, and this study evaluated a multi-faceted education program aimed at improving the solar protection practices of Australian Technical College Surveying students performing outdoor field exercises. One hundred and fifteen students were randomly assigned (by class) to either a Control or Treatment group, and given slides, information sheets, and a guest talk by a young woman who had recovered from life-threatening skin cancer, with a baseline and two follow-up assessments being made on field days using a behavioural diary. A greater proportion of students receiving the solar education increased sunscreen cream application and hat use compared with Control participants, and a composite index of solar protection favoured the Treatment group. Moreover, Control participants significantly changed some solar protection behaviours, possibly through modelling the Treatment group, and Treatment participants showed significantly higher rates of particular sun protection behaviours at the second post test occasion than at the first post test occasion.

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South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 9 , 1997 , pp. 48 - 68
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Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea & the University of Newcastle, Australia 1997

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