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Readiness to change...
Readiness to change sun-protective behaviour
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- Kristjansson, S. (author)
- Kristjánsson, S., Department of Cancer Prevention, Stockholm Center of Public Health, Karolinska Hospital, S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Helgason, AR. (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Rosdahl, Inger (author)
- Östergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Hälsouniversitetet,Dermatologi och venerologi,Hudkliniken i Östergötland
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- Holm, L.-E (author)
- Swedish Radiation Protection Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Ullen, H. (author)
- Ullén, H., Department of Cancer Prevention, Stockholm Center of Public Health, Karolinska Hospital, S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
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Karolinska Institutet Kristjánsson, S, Department of Cancer Prevention, Stockholm Center of Public Health, Karolinska Hospital, S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden (creator_code:org_t)
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2001
- 2001
- English.
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In: European Journal of Cancer Prevention. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 0959-8278 .- 1473-5709. ; 10:3, s. 289-296
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- The incidence of malignant melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers has increased rapidly in Sweden during the last 20 years. The best-known way to revert this trend is primary prevention. Matching health messages to readiness to change in the population may enhance the effect of community-based prevention. The aims of this study were to investigate readiness to change sun-protective behaviour in two groups (visitors to mobile screening units and beach-goers) and to test a single-item algorithm in assessing the stage of change in sun-protective behaviour. Seven hundred and forty-two visitors to the mobile screening units and 202 individuals on nearby beaches answered a short questionnaire. The assessment of readiness to change was based on stages of change in sun-protective behaviour modified from the Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change. As expected, the visitors to the screening units were more often in action/maintenance stages than the beach group for most sun-protective behaviours. In conclusion, the single-item algorithm method appears to be sensitive to assess readiness to change sun-protective behaviour, based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change. This method can be incorporated into population surveys and may aid in developing successful skin cancer prevention programmes. © 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Keyword
- Attitude
- Melanoma
- Skin cancer
- Skin type
- Stages of change
- Sun exposure
- Sunbathing
- Transtheoretical model.
- MEDICINE
- MEDICIN
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- art (subject category)
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