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SAGE Publications, Health Education & Behavior, 3(26), p. 396-408, 1999

DOI: 10.1177/109019819902600309

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Evaluation of a three-year school-based intervention to increase adolescent sun protection

Journal article published in 1999 by John B. Lowe, Kevin P. Balanda ORCID, Warren R. Stanton, Amaya M. Gillespie
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The efficacy of a school-based intervention was evaluated using a randomized controlled trial in Australia. In consecutive grades (8, 9, and 10), students in the intervention group received components of a program that addressed issues related to the need to protect yourself from the sun, behavioral strategies related to using sunprotective measures, personal and social images of having a tan, the use of sun-safe clothing, and howto change their schools through forms of structural change. Pre-and postintervention measures among junior high school students showed greatest improvement in the intervention group’s knowledge scores and minimal changes in sun protection behavior from Grade 8 to Grade 9, which were not maintained through Grade 10. Results of the study highlight some limitations of school-based interventions for changing sun protection behaviors.