ReportsSummertime sun protection used by adults for their children☆,☆☆
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METHODS
The survey was conducted on 5 successive Mondays and Tuesdays in July and August 1997 by Leo J. Shapiro and Associates, Inc (Chicago, Ill). In the first 4 weeks, 100 interviews were completed; 103 were completed in the last week. The telephone survey was conducted with a random digit dialing procedure among a national probability sample of 15,362 households of the continental United States. A person was reached in 7215 households. Of the households in which a person was reached, 5343 did not
Population sample
The final sample size consisted of 503 adult respondents; 56% were the child’s mother, 28% the father, 8% the grandmother, 7% the guardian, and 1% refusing to state the relationship. The mean age of the respondent was 37.4 years. Households were located in the 48 continental United States and were distributed in proportion to the population. Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the households are provided in Table I.
Weather conditions
A total of 87% of adults reported sunny conditions for the period
DISCUSSION
Previous studies based on recollection of experiencing a sunburn during the summer season have identified inadequate sun protection by children with estimates of up to 54% of the population experiencing at least one sunburn.14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 Among the 503 households surveyed in this study, the overall inadequate sun protection for children was identified by an adult’s observation of summer sunburns experienced by children during the previous week or weekend. This survey method reduced
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Supported by the National Skin Cancer Prevention Education Program, cooperative agreement U50/CCU511453-03 between the American Academy of Dermatology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Reprint requests: June K. Robinson, MD, Loyola University Chicago, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, 216 S First Ave, Room 341, Maywood, IL 60153.