Social Influences on Indoor Tanning Behavior in Young Women

社会对年轻女性室内晒黑行为的影响

• 批准号: 8516480
• 负责人: Jerod Lynn Stapleton
• 金额: $ 7.75万
• 依托单位: RBHS -CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8516480
• 关键词: Address; Advertising; Age; American Cancer Society; Appearance; Attitude; Awareness; Beds; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Body Image; Cessation of life; Development; Diagnosis; Eating Disorders; Epidemiology; Family; Female; Focus Groups; Future; Goals; Health behavior; Hour; Human; Image; Incidence; Individual; Industry; International; Intervention; Lead; Link; Malignant Neoplasms; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Motivation; Odds Ratio; Outcome; Perception; Phase; Prevalence; Public Health; Research; Risk; Role; Sampling; Series; Skin; Skin Cancer; Skin tanning; Survey Methodology; Surveys; Testing; Theoretical model; United States; Woman; Women' s Health; Work; literacy; melanoma; mortality; movie; novel; peer; pressure; social; theories; therapy design; ultraviolet; young adult; young woman

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, has a rapidly rising incidence and mortality rate and is now the sixth most common cancer in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that 68,000 cases were diagnosed and 8,700 individuals died from melanoma in the U.S. in 2010, an average of 8 diagnoses and 1 death every hour. Epidemiological research has shown a link between use of artificial ultraviolet indoor tanning beds and risk of melanoma and the International Research Agency for Cancer recently classified indoor tanning beds as carcinogenic to humans. Despite being generally aware of the increased risk of skin cancer associated with the use of indoor tanning, the behavior remains popular among young adult women. Studies have found prevalence rates of past year indoor tanning use to be as high as half of young women sampled. Although it is well established that young women often engage in indoor tanning to enhance their physical appearance, sociocultural influences on indoor tanning, such as media and indoor tanning industry influences, have been relatively understudied. Specifically, we will use constructs from Body Objectification Theory to determine if young women's perceptions of the portrayal of tanning and IT use by women in the media (i.e., movies, advertising) influence how they feel about their bodily appearance and ultimately their IT behaviors. The current proposal utilizes a mixed methods approach. The first aim of the proposal is to establish the importance of Body Objectification Theory constructs on indoor tanning by conducting a series of focus groups with indoor tanning users. The second aim is to use survey research to empirically evaluate a theoretical model of indoor tanning behavior that incorporates constructs identified as important in the first aim. A better understanding of indoor tanning behavior is critical for the development of novel interventions designed to reduce indoor tanning behaviors and achieve a public health goal of reducing incidence of future skin cancers.

描述（由申请人提供）：黑色素瘤是皮肤癌最致命的形式，其发病率和死亡率迅速上升，现在是美国第六个最常见的癌症。美国癌症协会估计，2010年在美国诊断了68,000例病例，有8,700名患者死于黑色素瘤，平均每小时有8例诊断和1人死亡。流行病学研究表明，使用人造紫外线室内晒黑床与黑色素瘤的风险与国际癌症研究局之间的联系是一种联系，最近将室内晒黑床归类为对人类的致癌。尽管通常知道与使用室内晒黑有关的皮肤癌风险增加，但这种行为在年轻的成年女性中仍然很受欢迎。研究发现，过去一年的室内晒黑用途的患病率高达一半的年轻女性。尽管众所周知，年轻妇女经常从事室内晒黑以增强其外表，但社会文化对室内晒黑的影响，例如媒体和室内革命行业的影响，已经相对忽略了。具体来说，我们将使用身体客观化理论中的构造来确定年轻女性对晒黑刻画的看法以及女性在媒体中使用的看法（即电影，广告）是否会影响她们对自己的身体外观以及最终其IT行为的感觉。当前的提案采用了混合方法。该提案的第一个目的是通过与室内晒黑用户进行一系列焦点小组来确定身体对象化理论对室内晒黑的重要性。第二个目的是利用调查研究来经验评估室内晒黑行为的理论模型，该模型纳入了在第一个目标中被确定为重要的构造。更好地了解室内晒黑行为对于发展至关重要 旨在减少室内晒黑行为并实现降低未来皮肤癌发生的公共卫生目标的新型干预措施。