Promoting Sun Safety among Zoo Visitors

Mayer, Joni A.; Lewis, Elizabeth C.; Eckhardt, Laura; Slymen, Donald J.; Belch, George E.; Elder, John P.; Engelberg, Moshe; Eichenfield, Lawrence F.; Achter, April; Nichols, T. Richard; Walker, Kristina; Kwon, Hyejin; Talosig, Maria; Gearen, Christine

doi:10.1006/pmed.2001.0875

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“…Theory-driven health communication is needed to motivate large proportions of adults to engage in sun safety behaviors and avoid sunburning. The success of GSS at ski areas is consistent with promotions in other recreation environments (Mayer et al, 2001) and further reinforces recent recommendations that sun safety promotions in recreational environments are an intervention with sufficient evidence of success to make them worthy of use at the community level (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003). While outdoor recreation has considerable physical and mental benefits, analyses of the 2005 National Health Interview Survey showed that physical activity, particularly by young people but also by those over 65, increased skin cancer risk behaviors (Coups, Manne, Meropol, & Weinberg, 2007).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…In the United States, skin cancer is both the most commonly occurring and the most preventable cancer (American Cancer Society, 2007). Several large health communication trials on sun safety have been effective with outdoor workers (Andersen et al, 2006; Buller et al, 2005; Glanz, Buller, & Saraiya, 2007; Mayer et al, 2007), children (Dietrich et al, 1998; Olson et al, 2007; Walkosz, Voeks et al, 2007), and people engaged in outdoor recreation (Glanz, Geller, Shigaki, Maddock, & Isnec, 2002; Glanz, Lew, Song, & Murakami-Akatsuka, 2000; Glanz, Maddock, Lew, & Murakami-Akatsuka, 2001; Mayer et al, 2001; Walkosz, Buller et al, 2007; Winett et al, 1997). One trial, the Go Sun Smart (GSS) program, has evaluated a theory-driven intervention targeted at the quarter million outdoor workers and more than 30 million recreational guests in the North American ski and snowboard industry.…”

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Testing a Theory-Based Health Communication Program: A Replication ofGo Sun Smartin Outdoor Winter Recreation

Andersen

Buller

Walkosz

et al. 2009

Journal of Health Communication

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The epidemic of preventable skin cancer in the United States creates an urgent need for health communication campaigns to improve sun protection. Go Sun Smart (GSS), a theory-driven multichannel health communication campaign showed positive effects on sun safety behaviors of employees and guests in a randomized trial at high-altitude ski areas. In this article we report findings from the North American GSS campaign for guests at ski areas that comprosed the original control-group resorts, replicating the results of the original guest intervention. Results showed that after GSS was deployed, guests at the original control group ski areas increased sun protection and reported greater recall of sun safety messages. Conversely, GSS had no effect on sunburning attitudes or self-efficacy beliefs. Like the original GSS guest intervention, the present study found that greater exposure to GSS messages was associated with greater use of sunscreen, sunscreen lip balm, and face covering, but not gloves or overall sun protection. There was no evidence that GSS decreased sunburning or attitudes and self-efficacy beliefs regarding sun safety.

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Testing a Theory-Based Health Communication Program: A Replication ofGo Sun Smartin Outdoor Winter Recreation

Andersen

Buller

Walkosz

et al. 2009

Journal of Health Communication

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“…12,29,[42][43][44][45][46] Clinicians might counsel parents about providing good sun-protection role models for their children. Further evidence of the efficacy of these and other strategies involving parent role models is needed.…”

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Children’s sun exposure and sun protection: Prevalence in Australia and related parental factors

Dobbinson

Wakefield

Hill

et al. 2012

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

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“…Further, many skiers and snowboarders have skin phenotypes that are at elevated risk for UVR-induced skin damage (i.e., fair skin, light eyes, red or blond hair, and sensitive skin) (Rodenas, Delgado-Rodriguez, Tercedor, & Serrano,1996; Weinstock, 1992), do not take adequate sun precautions, and experience sunburns (Authors, 1998). Fortunately, there is emerging evidence that health communication campaigns can influence people to take precautions against excessive sun exposure, particularly in recreational settings (Authors, 2008; Detweiler, Bedell, Salovey, Pronon, & Rothman, 1999; Glanz, Lew, Song, & Murakami-Akatsuka,2000; Mayer et al, 2001; Winett et al, 1997; Weinstock, Rossi, Redding, & Maddock, 2002). …”

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Dissemination of Go Sun Smart in Outdoor Recreation: Effect of Program Exposure on Sun Protection of Guests at High-Altitude Ski Areas

Walkosz

Buller

Andersen

et al. 2014

Journal of Health Communication

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Go Sun Smart (GSS) is a theory-based health communication program designed to influence sun protection behaviors of employees and guests at high altitude ski areas to reduce skin cancer risk. The effects of GSS, in a Phase IV dissemination randomized posttest-only trial, upon sun protection behaviors of ski area guests are reported. Program use was assessed by on-site observation and guest message exposure and sun protection was measured in intercept surveys at ski areas. Dissemination strategy, enhanced versus basic, was not significantly related to sun safety practices. Additional analyses examined the relationship of message exposure to guests’ sun safety practices. Ski areas displaying at least 6 GSS materials in guest-only areas and 9 GSS materials throughout the area increased guests’ message exposure. Higher message exposure within the high-use ski areas was associated with improved sun protection by guests but not in the low-use ski areas. The importance of program implementation and message exposure on the success of evidence-based health communication efforts applied industry-wide are underscored.

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Promoting Sun Safety among Zoo Visitors

Cited by 34 publications

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Testing a Theory-Based Health Communication Program: A Replication ofGo Sun Smartin Outdoor Winter Recreation

Testing a Theory-Based Health Communication Program: A Replication ofGo Sun Smartin Outdoor Winter Recreation

Children’s sun exposure and sun protection: Prevalence in Australia and related parental factors

Dissemination of Go Sun Smart in Outdoor Recreation: Effect of Program Exposure on Sun Protection of Guests at High-Altitude Ski Areas

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