Lead researcher
Suzanne Dobbinson, Melanie Wakefield and collaborators
Years funded
1987 - present
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.
A series of papers and analyses have been conducted for the study analysing time trends in sun protection and sunburn in Victoria for the population and 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.
Funding Body
VicHealth, SunSmart, Cancer Council Australia, Cancer Australia