How Useful is the Advice: "Fill up a Handful of Sunscreen and Spread it All Over Your Body"

Bispebjerg Hospital31 enrolled

Overview

The advice: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body" is used in several sun safety campaigns. The hope is that users in swimwear following the advice will apply a sunscreen quantity of 2 mg/cm\^2 to all accessible skin. The present study is the first to investigate how this advice works in practice.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Quantity of Sunscreen Sun Protection Factor Sun Safety Campaigns Sunscreen Use

Interventions

Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body. Sunscreen, ActinicaBEHAVIORAL

Volunteers were asked to follow the rule of thumb: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body".

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: \- European descent Exclusion Criteria: * Skin disease * allergy to the content in sunscreen * Pregnancy * Breastfeeding

Locations (1)

Bispebjerg Hospital

Copenhagen NV, DK, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The overall quantities of sunscreen applied were calculated from the weighed amount of sunscreen used divided by the skin area accessible for sunscreen application.

Time frame: Outcome measure will be assessed within half an hour after sunscreen application. There will be no further follow up.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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