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

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sunscreen Use; Quantity of Sunscreen; Sun Protection Factor; Sun Safety Campaigns

Treatments: Behavioral: Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body. Sunscreen, Actinica

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03627260

Handful of sunscreen

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• European descent

Exclusion criteria

• Skin disease
• allergy to the content in sunscreen
• Pregnancy
• Breastfeeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)