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Friendly tanning: young adults’ engagement with friends around indoor tanning [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Behavioral Medicine, 2017
Indoor tanning (IT), particularly during early adulthood, increases risk for melanoma and is exceedingly common among youth. Social influence, including social norms, promotes IT but little is known about young adults' engagement with friends around tanning.
Vivian M, Rodríguez   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

On the potential beneficial effects of indoor tanning

open access: yesBritish Journal of Dermatology, 2022
DEAR EDITOR, We read with great interest the article by Eden et al. entitled ‘Cost-effectiveness of a policy-based intervention to reduce melanoma and other skin cancers associated with indoor tanning’, concluding that banning of indoor tanning would ...
P. Lindqvist   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Repair, abort, ignore? Strategies for dealing with UV damage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
DNA repair is a prominent member of the nuclear transactions triad (replication, transcription, and repair). Sophisticated mechanisms govern the cellular process of decision-making (to repair or not to repair, to proceed with cell cycle or not and ...
Khalil, Hilal S.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Utilization of indoor tanning: a cross-sectional study using mobile device data.

open access: yesJournal of Investigative Dermatology, 2022
Indoor tanning using ultraviolet (UV) radiation increases skin cancer risk. However, there is little objective information on when or where indoor tanning is used.
M. Wehner   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prevalence and correlates of intentional outdoor and indoor tanning among adolescents in the United States: Findings from the FLASHE survey

open access: yesPreventive 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the potential beneficial effects of indoor tanning: reply from the authors

open access: yesBritish Journal of Dermatology, 2022
DEAR EDITOR, We read with great interest the article by Eden et al. entitled ‘Cost-effectiveness of a policy-based intervention to reduce melanoma and other skin cancers associated with indoor tanning’, concluding that banning of indoor tanning would ...
Martin Eden   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reasons for indoor tanning use and the acceptability of alternatives: A qualitative study.

open access: yesSocial Science & Medicine (1967), 2021
RATIONALE Using indoor tanning devices is associated with substantial health consequences, such as an increased risk of melanoma and other skin cancers. Many people including minors and some at high risk of skin cancer continue to use these devices.
Stephanie Lyons   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tanning addiction: conceptualisation, assessment, and correlates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Research into problematic tanning (or 'tanning addiction') has markedly increased over the past few years. Although several excessive tanning instruments exist, most of these are psychometrically poor, not theoretically anchored, and have ...
American Psychiatric Association   +61 more
core   +1 more source

Knowledge and practice of recreational tanning among female college students in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. A cross sectional study

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Association of Indoor Tanning Regulations With Health and Economic Outcomes in North America and Europe.

open access: yesJAMA Dermatol, 2020
Importance UV radiation emissions from indoor tanning devices are carcinogenic. Regulatory actions may be associated with reduced exposure of UV radiation at a population level.
Gordon LG   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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