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Habits and Preferences in Sunscreen Usage Among Healthcare Professionals in the UK

Raising awareness about sun protection is an ongoing challenge. In 2018, a Survey Monkey questionnaire was distributed among healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom looking at their own habits of sunscreen usage. A total of 165 responses were collected. Eighty-nine percent of our respondents...

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Autores principales: Petrou, Ilia Anna, Tan, Siao Pei, Birnie, Andrew J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10364972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37492465
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S400192
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description Raising awareness about sun protection is an ongoing challenge. In 2018, a Survey Monkey questionnaire was distributed among healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom looking at their own habits of sunscreen usage. A total of 165 responses were collected. Eighty-nine percent of our respondents would use sunscreen when outdoors 11am–3pm on a cloudless, sunny day in August in the UK. However, only 27% of these healthcare professionals would regularly reapply sunscreen every 2 hours. The most important reason for using sunscreen was avoiding sunburn (importance weighted average of 4.71, on a scale from 1 to 5), followed by avoiding skin cancer (4.49) and skin ageing (4.06). On an importance scale from 1 to 5, the most important sunscreen characteristics, when choosing or recommending a product, were the level of UVA protection (importance weighted average 4.48), its stickiness (3.85) and degree of water-resistance (3.77).
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spelling pubmed-103649722023-07-25 Habits and Preferences in Sunscreen Usage Among Healthcare Professionals in the UK Petrou, Ilia Anna Tan, Siao Pei Birnie, Andrew J Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol Short Report Raising awareness about sun protection is an ongoing challenge. In 2018, a Survey Monkey questionnaire was distributed among healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom looking at their own habits of sunscreen usage. A total of 165 responses were collected. Eighty-nine percent of our respondents would use sunscreen when outdoors 11am–3pm on a cloudless, sunny day in August in the UK. However, only 27% of these healthcare professionals would regularly reapply sunscreen every 2 hours. The most important reason for using sunscreen was avoiding sunburn (importance weighted average of 4.71, on a scale from 1 to 5), followed by avoiding skin cancer (4.49) and skin ageing (4.06). On an importance scale from 1 to 5, the most important sunscreen characteristics, when choosing or recommending a product, were the level of UVA protection (importance weighted average 4.48), its stickiness (3.85) and degree of water-resistance (3.77). Dove 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10364972/ /pubmed/37492465 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S400192 Text en © 2023 Petrou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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