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  • Testing a belief-based intervention encouraging sun-safety among adolescents in a high risk area

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    White, Katherine M
    Hyde, Melissa K
    O'Connor, Erin L
    Naumann, Lisa
    Hawkes, Anna L
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    Hyde, Melissa K.
    Year published
    2010
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    Objective To provide a preliminary test of a theory of planned behavior (TPB) belief-based intervention to increase adolescents' sun-protective behaviors in a high risk area, Queensland, Australia. Methods In the period of October-November, 2007 and May-June, 2008, 80 adolescents (14.53 ᠰ.69 years) were recruited from two secondary schools (one government and one private) in Queensland after obtaining student, parental, and school informed consent. Adolescents were allocated to either a control or intervention condition based on the class they attended. The intervention comprised three, one hour in-school sessions facilitated ...
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    Objective To provide a preliminary test of a theory of planned behavior (TPB) belief-based intervention to increase adolescents' sun-protective behaviors in a high risk area, Queensland, Australia. Methods In the period of October-November, 2007 and May-June, 2008, 80 adolescents (14.53 ᠰ.69 years) were recruited from two secondary schools (one government and one private) in Queensland after obtaining student, parental, and school informed consent. Adolescents were allocated to either a control or intervention condition based on the class they attended. The intervention comprised three, one hour in-school sessions facilitated by Cancer Council Queensland employees with sessions covering the belief basis of the TPB (i.e., behavioral, normative, and control [barrier and motivator] sun-safe beliefs). Participants completed questionnaires assessing sun-safety beliefs, intentions, and behavior pre- and post-intervention. Repeated Measures Multivariate Analysis of Variance was used to test the effect of the intervention across time on these constructs. Results Students completing the intervention reported stronger sun-safe normative and motivator beliefs and intentions and the performance of more sun-safe behaviors across time than those in the control condition. Conclusion Strengthening beliefs about the approval of others and motivators for sun protection may encourage sun-safe cognitions and actions among adolescents.
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    Journal Title
    Preventive Medicine
    Volume
    51
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.07.003
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 Elsevier Inc. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Sports science and exercise
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/52767
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