Reducing UV Exposure to Prevent Skin Cancer: Message Development & Testing

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior, Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Outdoor Sun Behavior; Behavioral: Indoor Tanning Behavior

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03201120

821348

Details and patient eligibility

About

Phase 3b of the research will be a laboratory experiment that uses an experimental and analytic design that is parallel to that used in Phase 3a, the online experiment. The primary objective of Phase 3b is to assess physiological response (i.e., eye tracking) to different message appeals of the audio-visual messages used in Phase 3a on respondents' behavioral intentions and UV-related behavioral choices post-exposure. Including time for preparation, viewing, and removal of the monitoring equipment, the message viewing session will take about 45 minutes per session.

Enrollment: 3,595 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 49 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-49 year old non-Hispanic white (NHW) adults
• OR 18-25 year old NHW females who have tanned indoors in the past 12 months

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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3,595 participants in 2 patient groups

Outdoor Sun Exposure Behavior

Experimental group

Description:

A convenience sample of white, English-speaking adults ages 18 to 49 will be recruited via online advertisements in Philadelphia and the surrounding region (within a 30 mile radius). The investigators will recruit 120 adults to test outdoor UV exposure messages. The investigators will quota sample to ensure representation across age and gender groups. The inclusion criteria are that adults must be white, must be between 18-49 years old and must speak English.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Outdoor Sun Behavior

Indoor Tanning Behavior

Experimental group

Description:

A convenience sample of white, English-speaking females ages 18 to 25 will be recruited via online advertisements and flyers in Philadelphia and the surrounding region (within a 30 mile radius). The investigators will recruit 60 adults to test indoor tanning messages. The inclusion criteria are that adults must be white, female, must be between 18-25 years old, must have used an indoor tanning bed at least once in the past 12 months, and must speak English.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Indoor Tanning Behavior