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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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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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“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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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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Sunbed Use among 11- to 17-Year-Olds and Estimated Number of Commercial Sunbeds in England with Implications for a ‘Buy-Back’ Scheme

Children, 2021
Prior to 2011 legislation prohibiting children from using commercial sunbeds, the prevalence of sunbed use in 15- to 17-year-olds in some areas in England was as high as 50%.
Louisa G. Gordon, Rob Hainsworth, Martin Eden, Tracy Epton, Paul Lorigan, Megan Grant, Adéle C. Green, Katherine Payne   +7 more
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Health Beliefs About UV and Skin Cancer Risk Behaviors

Cancer Control, 2020
Our purpose was to examine the beliefs of college students about UV exposure and sunscreen use and their associations with skin cancer risk and protective behaviors in a cloudy climate. The sample was online survey participants (N = 334) recruited from a
Anne Julian PhD, Sheryl Thorburn PhD, MPH, G. John Geldhof PhD   +2 more
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