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Decrease in Self-Reported Tanning Frequency among Utah Teens following the Passage of Utah Senate Bill 41: An Analysis of the Effects of Youth-Access Restriction Laws on Tanning Behaviors

Journal of Skin Cancer, 2014
Introduction. Adolescent use of indoor tanning facilities is associated with an increased risk in later development of melanoma skin cancers. States that have imposed age restrictions on access to indoor tanning generally show lower self-reported rates ...
Rebecca G. Simmons, Kristi Smith, Meghan Balough, Michael Friedrichs   +3 more
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Indoor Tanning — Science, Behavior, and Policy [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2010
An estimated 1 million times per day, someone in the United States uses ultraviolet (UV) radiation for skin tanning. According to the indoor tanning industry, tanning beds are used by 30 million Americans, or about 10% of the U.S. population, each year (www.theita.com/indoor). These users include minors, who often have ready access to tanning beds.
David E, Fisher, William D, James
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Lifetime history of indoor tanning in young people: a retrospective assessment of initiation, persistence, and correlates

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Despite educational and public health campaigns to convey the risks of indoor tanning, many individuals around the world continue to engage in this behavior.
Lostritto Karen, Ferrucci Leah M, Cartmel Brenda, Leffell David J, Molinaro Annette M, Bale Allen E, Mayne Susan T   +6 more
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Measuring nonsolar tanning behavior: indoor and sunless tanning

, 2010
OBJECTIVE: To develop items to measure indoor tanning and sunless tanning that can be used to monitor trends in population surveys or to assess changes in behavior in intervention studies. DESIGN: A group of experts on indoor tanning convened in December
Lazovich, DeAnn, Cokkinides, Vilma, Pagoto, Sherry L., Mayer, Joni A., Heckman, Carolyn, Hillhouse, Joel, Thompson, Kevin, Dennis, Leslie K., Olson, Ardis, Stryker, Jo Ellen, Pichon, Latrice   +10 more
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Prevalence and correlates of intentional outdoor and indoor tanning among adolescents in the United States: Findings from the FLASHE survey

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2018
A body of research has focused on adolescents' indoor tanning behaviors but relatively little is known about the prevalence of adolescents' intentional outdoor tanning (time spent outdoors to get a tan).
Zhaomeng Niu, Veenat Parmar, Baichen Xu, Elliot J. Coups, Jerod L. Stapleton   +4 more
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A longitudinal test of the Comprehensive Indoor Tanning Expectations Scale: The importance of affective beliefs in predicting indoor tanning behavior [PDF]

, 2016
In order to better understand drivers of dangerous indoor tanning behaviors, researchers developed the Comprehensive Indoor Tanning Expectations scale.
Noar, Seth M, Morales-Pico, Brenda M, Myrick, Jessica Gall, Kelley, Dannielle, Zeitany, Alexandra E, Thomas, Nancy E   +5 more
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Knowledge and practice of recreational tanning among female college students in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. A cross sectional study

Journal of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, 2017
Recreational tanning has become popular among young Saudi women. This study investigates whether Saudi female college students are practicing recreational tanning and analyzes the level of their awareness regarding the consequences of tanning as a cause ...
Najla A. Al-Dawsari, Rana K. Shahab
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“These people, you just guide them until they become these people”: learning to become a frequent indoor tanner

BMC Psychology, 2017
Background Many young women experiment with using indoor tanning beds with some becoming regular users. There is a dearth of research focused on factors related to the development of regular tanning.
Jerod L. Stapleton, Benjamin F. Crabtree
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Addiction to Indoor Tanning [PDF]

Archives of Dermatology, 2010
To assess the prevalence of addiction to indoor tanning among college students and its association with substance use and symptoms of anxiety and depression.Two written measures, the CAGE (Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, Eye-opener) Questionnaire, used to screen for alcoholism, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition ...
Mosher, Catherine E., Danoff-Burg, Sharon   +1 more
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Factors associated with sunbed use among 3692 outpatients in 18 centers of the Italian Cancer League (LILT)

Scientific Reports, 2021
Indoor tanning is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer. Nonetheless, its use is still widespread. We aimed to investigate the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of sunbed users in a group of participants in the skin cancer ...
Simona Mastroeni, Francesca Sampogna, Nidia Melo Salcedo, Francesco Ricci, Luca Fania, Flaminia Antonelli, Damiano Abeni, Mario Cristofolini   +7 more
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