Who Are the Nonusers of Sunscreen, and What Are Their Reasons? Development of a New Item Set
Autor: | Tatiana Görig, Katharina Diehl, Svenja Seuffert, Rüdiger Greinert, Sven Schneider |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Skin Neoplasms Sun protection Sunburn Logistic regression Article Sunscreen 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine visual_art.visual_artist Sunbathing Cronbach's alpha Germany Environmental health Internal consistency medicine Humans Skin cancer 030212 general & internal medicine Set (psychology) business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease Health promotion Oncology visual_art business Sunscreening Agents Barriers |
Zdroj: | Journal of Cancer Education |
ISSN: | 1543-0154 0885-8195 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s13187-020-01732-2 |
Popis: | Sunscreen use is an important aspect of sun protective behavior. Previous studies revealed deficits in sunscreen use. Our aim was to quantify sunscreen use in a nationwide representative study in Germany as well as to develop and test an item battery on reasons for none use of sunscreen. We analyzed data of the National Cancer Aid Monitoring (NCAM; wave 4; n = 3000, aged 14–45). To describe those who only use sunscreen rarely or never, we used chi2 statistics and logistic regression analysis. In addition, we utilized a newly developed item battery on barriers to sunscreen use. Here, we used Cronbach’s alpha to investigate reliability. In total, 20.7% reported using sunscreen rarely or never. Infrequent or none use of sunscreen was associated with male sex, immigrant background, none or rare sunbathing in summer, and current or past use of sunbeds. Participants with higher skin cancer risk (e.g., pale skin) were less likely to use sunscreen infrequently or never. The major reasons for not using sunscreen were inconvenience and no perceived need for applying sunscreen. Overall, internal consistency of the item battery on potential barriers to sunscreen use was very good (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.865). We found deficits in sunscreen use especially in sunbed users, men, and individuals with immigrant background. Our results give important implications for future prevention and health promotion campaigns on sunscreen use. |
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