NCT03627260

How Useful is the Advice: "Fill up a Handful of Sunscreen and Spread it All Over Your Body"

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 31 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The advice: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body" is used in several sun safety campaigns. The hope is that users in swimwear following the advice will apply a sunscreen quantity of 2 mg/cm\^2 to all accessible skin. The present study is the first to investigate how this advice works in practice.

Conditions

• Quantity of Sunscreen
• Sun Protection Factor
• Sun Safety Campaigns
• Sunscreen Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body. Sunscreen, Actinica	Volunteers were asked to follow the rule of thumb: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body".

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-29
• Completion: 2017-07-29
• First posted: 2018-08-13
• Last updated: 2018-08-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark