NCT01508013

An Appearance-Based Intervention to Reduce Teen Skin Cancer Risk

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 443 (actual)
• Sponsor: East Tennessee State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a skin cancer prevention website is effective at reduce female teenagers' desire to use indoor tanning and ultimately their use of indoor tanning over an 18 month period.

Detailed description

The project is designed to improve the understanding of, and ability to affect UV risk behavior in teenage populations. The International Agency for Research in Cancer classifies indoor tanning as "carcinogenic to humans." There is evidence that female indoor tanning use increases dramatically from freshman to senior years of high school (e.g., 25-40% of older high school girls) making high school a critical time period for anti-tanning interventions to be carried out. This proposal assesses the effectiveness of a skin cancer prevention website for a nationally representative sample of high school teens in a randomized controlled trial. Teens exposed to the website will report reduced indoor tanning intentions, frequency and overall percentage of users while increasing sun protective behaviors at long-term (i.e 18 month) follow-up.

Conditions

• Skin Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Appearance-Focused Website Intervention	The intervention is a teen-friendly website with information concerning the health and appearance effects of indoor tanning.
BEHAVIORAL	Control Website	The control website contains information about alcohol and drug abuse which is oriented for a teen audience.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-05-01
• Primary completion: 2014-05-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2012-01-11
• Last updated: 2016-06-02
• Results posted: 2016-06-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States