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Blair Irwin1, Dana Mauriello, Laura Hemminger
1Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Background:
Because of the perception that a tan is healthy and attractive, it has been difficult to educate adolescents about sun protection.
Objective:
We sought to examine whether the skin sun-acne tutorial, an hour-long, hands-on educational intervention that combined acne education with sun-protection education, increased knowledge of skin care, sun protection, and acne.
Methods:
In all, 1214 middle- and high-school students were taught, tested, and surveyed. Outcomes were determined based on comparing performance on a pretest and posttest.
Results:
All students, regardless of sex, ethnicity, age, or race, improved significantly from their pretest to posttest scores (P < .001).
Limitations:
This study only used one health educator and was restricted to public schools in central New Jersey.
Conclusions:
The skin sun-acne tutorial significantly improved knowledge of skin care including knowledge of sun protection and acne among students of different grades, sexes, ages, ethnicities, and races.
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