Skin Cancer Prevention in a Pediatric Population
About 1 in 90 American children born in the late 1990's will develop malignant melanoma in
their lifetimes. Sun exposure in childhood appears to be the most important preventable
risk factor for this disease. This project will develop a tailored, risk-based, written
intervention, which will be mailed to parents of children age 6-9 years in the spring of
each year. The tailored intervention will utilize the Precaution Adoption Process Model,
which has a primary focus on risk perception and suggests that there are seven stages
leading to sustained health behavior change. The effectiveness of the intervention will be
tested using a randomized controlled trail involving 1000 children recruited from health
care facilities and community locations at age 5-6 years and followed for 3 years using
telephone interviews to assess sun protection behaviors and skin exams to observe changes in
melanocytic nevi, freckling, and tanning.
Interventional
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Prevention
sun protection behavior scale
Parent report through telephone interview
change from baseline over 4 years
No
Lori A Crane, PhD, MPH
Principal Investigator
University of Colorado, Denver
United States: Institutional Review Board
96-0014
NCT01464957
November 2003
September 2008
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University of Colorado Denver | Denver, Colorado 80262 |