Victorian Sun Survey time trends and relationship with SunSmart media campaigns

Project Description

The Victorian Sun Survey is an approximately triennial telephone sruvey, commencing in the summer of 1987-88. It interviews a representative sample of Victorians aged 14 to 69 years over summer about their sun-related attitudes, sun protections behaviours and sun-related attitudes, sun protection behaviours and sunburn on the weekend just past.

This research program is analysing time trends in sun protection and sunburn in Victoria for the population overall and for key subgroups, as well as studying the impact of exposure to SunSmart media campaigns within population subgroups. So far, we have found that sun protection improves overall in the population in the presence of SunSmart mass media campaigns.

Year

1987 - present

Researchers

Suzanne Dobbinson, Jen Makin, Charles Warne, David Hill, Melanie Wakefield and collaborators

Funding Body

VicHealth, SunSmart, Cancer Council Australia, Cancer Australia

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