TY - JOUR
AU - Lapin, Angela
AB - THE Applied Research Briefs: Behavior Change The Relative Effects of a Health-based vers as an Appearance-based Intervention Designed to Increase Sunscreen Use Heike L M. Mahler, PhD; Betsy Fitzpatrick, BA; Patricia Parker, BA; Angela Lapin, BA PURPOSE als just past adolescence would be more or less susceptible to a photoaging message than those in their late twenties and thirties, who are at the age where they are likely be- As the incidence of all types of skin cancer continues to rise, 1 it is important to attempt to increase our arsenal ginning to experience some wrinkles a~ad age spots. Final- of effective messages for convincing individuals to protect ly, the possibility that any observed effects of the preven- themselves against the primary risk factor for skin cancer: tion messages on intentions to use sun~creen might be excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation. 2 Most educa- mediated by subjects’ beliefs about their susceptibility to tional messages, and most research, regarding "safe-sun" photoaging and skin cancer, the severi.y of these disor- ders, the efficacy of using sunscreen, aad their self-effica- practices have focused on the risk of developing skin can- cy for using sunscreen 7,8 was examined. cer) However, repeated sun exposure 
TI - The Relative Effects of a Health-Based versus an Appearance-Based Intervention Designed to Increase Sunscreen Use
JF - American Journal of Health Promotion
DO - 10.4278/0890-1171-11.6.426
DA - 1997-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-relative-effects-of-a-health-based-versus-an-appearance-based-00yRKCGlQQ
SP - 426
EP - 429
VL - 11
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -