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Identification of Relevant Sociocognitive Determinants Explaining Multiple Parental Sun Protection Behaviors

BACKGROUND: Adequate sun safety during childhood is crucial for decreasing skin cancer risk in later life. Although parents are an essential target group in applying sun protection measures for their children, insight into the determinants associated with their sun protection behaviors is limited. A...

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Autores principales: Thoonen, Karlijn, van Osch, Liesbeth, Crutzen, Rik, de Vries, Hein, Schneider, Francine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34053307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10901981211010434
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author Thoonen, Karlijn
van Osch, Liesbeth
Crutzen, Rik
de Vries, Hein
Schneider, Francine
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van Osch, Liesbeth
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de Vries, Hein
Schneider, Francine
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description BACKGROUND: Adequate sun safety during childhood is crucial for decreasing skin cancer risk in later life. Although parents are an essential target group in applying sun protection measures for their children, insight into the determinants associated with their sun protection behaviors is limited. AIMS: This study aims to identify the most relevant determinants in predicting multiple parental sun protection intentions and behaviors in different sun exposure situations. METHOD: A longitudinal survey study with two measurements was conducted among Dutch parents (N = 670) of children (4–12 years old). Twenty-seven sociocognitive determinants were examined in terms of relevance regarding four parental sun protection behaviors in different sun exposure situations. The Confidence Interval-Based Estimation of Relevance approach was used to visualize room for improvement (sample means) on all determinants and their association strengths (correlations) with sun protection intentions and behaviors. RESULTS: Behavior-specific rather than generic determinants were most relevant in explaining all sun protection behaviors. Of these determinants, attitude, self-efficacy and action planning, and especially parental feelings of difficulty in performing sun protection behaviors, were most relevant. Altogether, the explained variance of all sociocognitive determinants was highest for shade-seeking behavior (R(2) = .41 and .43) and lowest for supportive behavior (R(2) = .19 and .29) in both planned and incidental sun exposure situations, respectively. DISCUSSION: This study provides detailed insight into relevant sociocognitive determinants of parental sun protection behaviors in various sun exposure situations and directions for composing parental skin cancer prevention interventions. CONCLUSIONS: Future composition of sun safety interventions should emphasize on enhancing parental feelings of self-efficacy, especially for shade-seeking and clothing behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-91501452022-05-31 Identification of Relevant Sociocognitive Determinants Explaining Multiple Parental Sun Protection Behaviors Thoonen, Karlijn van Osch, Liesbeth Crutzen, Rik de Vries, Hein Schneider, Francine Health Educ Behav Sun Protection Behaviors BACKGROUND: Adequate sun safety during childhood is crucial for decreasing skin cancer risk in later life. Although parents are an essential target group in applying sun protection measures for their children, insight into the determinants associated with their sun protection behaviors is limited. AIMS: This study aims to identify the most relevant determinants in predicting multiple parental sun protection intentions and behaviors in different sun exposure situations. METHOD: A longitudinal survey study with two measurements was conducted among Dutch parents (N = 670) of children (4–12 years old). Twenty-seven sociocognitive determinants were examined in terms of relevance regarding four parental sun protection behaviors in different sun exposure situations. The Confidence Interval-Based Estimation of Relevance approach was used to visualize room for improvement (sample means) on all determinants and their association strengths (correlations) with sun protection intentions and behaviors. RESULTS: Behavior-specific rather than generic determinants were most relevant in explaining all sun protection behaviors. Of these determinants, attitude, self-efficacy and action planning, and especially parental feelings of difficulty in performing sun protection behaviors, were most relevant. Altogether, the explained variance of all sociocognitive determinants was highest for shade-seeking behavior (R(2) = .41 and .43) and lowest for supportive behavior (R(2) = .19 and .29) in both planned and incidental sun exposure situations, respectively. DISCUSSION: This study provides detailed insight into relevant sociocognitive determinants of parental sun protection behaviors in various sun exposure situations and directions for composing parental skin cancer prevention interventions. CONCLUSIONS: Future composition of sun safety interventions should emphasize on enhancing parental feelings of self-efficacy, especially for shade-seeking and clothing behaviors. SAGE Publications 2021-05-31 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9150145/ /pubmed/34053307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10901981211010434 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Identification of Relevant Sociocognitive Determinants Explaining Multiple Parental Sun Protection Behaviors
title_sort identification of relevant sociocognitive determinants explaining multiple parental sun protection behaviors
topic Sun Protection Behaviors
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150145/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10901981211010434
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