Joni Mayer

..We evaluated psychosocial, built-environmental, and policy-related correlates of adolescents' indoor tanning use...

..This study assessed the effects of a reminder letter from a physician (relative to a mammography facility letter or no letter) on appointment compliance among women 50-74 years of age due for an annual screening mammogram...

..To our knowledge, whether these state laws are actually enforced has not been evaluated previously in all 28 states. Therefore, we interviewed key informants in these states to assess enforcement practices...

..We examined whether US Postal Service letter carriers who received a sun safety intervention would wear wide-brim hats and sunscreen significantly more often than those who did not receive the intervention...

..We conducted a study in the winter and replicated it in the summer to evaluate an intervention for reducing UVR exposure during the zoo visit...

..CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that the indoor tanning industry, through pricing incentives that allow frequent sessions, may be promoting overexposure to UVR. Stronger legislation is needed to address this issue...

..CONCLUSIONS: This study is important because there is limited research focused on farm workers' protective behaviors against UVR exposure. Interventions to improve sun protection behaviors of farm workers are needed...

..Sunscreen and widebrim hat use during the workday is low and rates of use are significantly lower during non-working days. CONCLUSIONS: Sun safety interventions for carriers should encourage sun protection at all times when outdoors...

..Determining this relationship is important for developing future interventions...

..The instrument was then used to rate the stringency of state laws...

..Based on these findings, when interviewing adults about summer sun safety behavior, we recommend conducting the interviews during the summer season or shortly thereafter to reduce potential recall biases...

..To assess indoor tanning facility practices in a sample of facilities in 116 cities representing all 50 states...

..Indoor tanning is common among adolescents...

..CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study indicated that although non-Latino white employees tended to have higher rates of sun-safety behaviors, the rates of adequate protection of all groups were low...

..S. urban-dwellers. Cities having the higher density profile may be logical targets for interventions promoting less or safer use of these facilities...

..LIMITATIONS: Levels of concordance for the confederates differed. CONCLUSION: Telephone assessment of compliance is fairly comparable with the more labor-intensive, face-to-face assessment...

..The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 8% of young drivers and 5% of all drivers use cell phones while driving...

..Findings suggest that researchers should not assume that a letter sent in advance of a telephone survey will necessarily increase response rates enough to justify their use...

..0-4.8). During Summer 2, these rates were 34% and 44%, respectively (ns). The pattern of findings suggests that tailoring had no incremental long-term impact and that the generic materials produced a good level of dissemination...

..Because the availability of commercial indoor tanning facilities may influence use, data are needed on the number and density of such facilities...

..Future sun safety research and educational messages should include all potentially high-risk individuals, irrespective of ethnoracial identity...

..This study assessed the rates and correlates of adolescents' compliance with national guidelines for physical activity...

..To develop items to measure indoor tanning and sunless tanning that can be used to monitor trends in population surveys or to assess changes in behavior in intervention studies...

..This article places the data derived from the evidence review in the context of needs and recommendations for future research in skin cancer prevention...

..Findings will be used to inform future multi-level interventions for reducing risks associated with indoor tanning. ..

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..If successful, this intervention package has a high potential for institutionalization within and dissemination throughout U.S.P.S. sites nationwide. ..