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dc.contributor.authorStøle, Hanne Stavenes
dc.contributor.authorNilsen, Lill Tove N
dc.contributor.authorJoranger, Pål
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-03T11:38:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-04T06:50:56Z
dc.date.available2019-06-03T11:38:01Z
dc.date.available2019-06-04T06:50:56Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-18
dc.identifier.citationSt?le, Nilsen LT, Joranger P. Beliefs, attitudes and perceptions to sun-tanning behaviour in the Norwegian population: a cross-sectional study using the health belief model. BMC Public Health. 2019;19(206):1-12en
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/7189
dc.description.abstractBackground: Norway has one of the highest incidences of melanoma in the world. It has been suggested that the majority of all skin cancers could be prevented by changes related to sun-tanning behaviour. This study explores the sun-tanning behaviour of the Norwegian population using a modified Health Belief Model (HBM). Increased knowledge about beliefs, attitudes and sun-tanning behaviour can provide information which may be useful for future sun protection interventions. Methods: In 2017, 1004 members of the Norwegian population completed cross-sectional online surveys. People who seek the sun for tanning purposes was the eligibility criterion for this study, reducing the study population to 569. With the aid of the constructs from the HBM, predictive factors explaining sun-tanning behaviour were determined using multivariate linear regression adjusted for demographics (gender, age, education and income). Furthermore, the predictor variables, empowerment and benefits of tanning, were added to the model. Results: Five of the constructs in the modified HBM showed significant correlation with sun-tanning behaviour using bivariate analysis. The strongest correlation was perceived barriers of sun protection (0.42), with the next strongest being the benefits of tanning (0.30). The modified model explained 31% of the variation in sun-tanning behaviour using multivariate analysis. Significant predictors from the HBM to sun-tanning behaviour were perceived barriers to sun protection (Beta=0.36, p<0.001) and the severity of melanoma (Beta=−0.20, p<0.001). In addition, empowerment (Beta=0.05, p=0.05) and the benefits of tanning (Beta=0.28, p<0.001) proved to be variables with significant effect on sun-tanning behaviour. The demographic factors age, education and income were also associated with sun-tanning behaviour (p<0.05). Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, several factors in the modified HBM had a significant impact on Norwegians’ sun-tanning behaviour. The results indicate that future sun protection interventions should focus on reducing barriers in relation to sun protection behaviour, as well as emphasizing the severity of adverse tanning behaviour and melanoma. Efforts to alter the perceptions of the beneficial factors of tanning behaviour can also be appropriate in health promotion campaigns and interventions. Finally, implementing empowerment strategies could have a positive effect on promoting healthy sun-tanning behaviour.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, the home institution of one of the authors, funded the online survey.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBMCen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBMC Public Health;2019 19:206
dc.rights© The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSun behavioursen
dc.subjectSkin cancer preventionen
dc.subjectMelanomaen
dc.subjectHealth belief modelsen
dc.subjectEmpowermentsen
dc.titleBeliefs, attitudes and perceptions to sun-tanning behaviour in the Norwegian population: a cross-sectional study using the health belief modelen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2019-06-03T11:38:00Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6503-0
dc.identifier.cristin1697874
dc.source.journalBMC Public Health


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© The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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