Unintended Sunburn: A Potential Target for Sun Protection Messages
Table 2
Potentially modifiable respondent behaviours, attitudes, and knowledge for those sunburned inadvertently and those not sunburned (pooled over survey years 1999/00 to 2005/06).
Potentially modifiable variables
Unintentional sunburn
Yes % () ()
No % () ()
% within category yes
Main activity
<0.001
Passive recreation
24.2 (79)
19.4 (412)
16.1
Water-based recreation
19.9 (65)
12.3 (262)
19.9
Paid work
5.2 (17)
4.0 (84)
16.8
Unpaid work
7.0 (23)
10.5 (222)
9.4
Unspecified
1.0 (3)
1.0 (21)
12.5
Active recreation
42.8 (140)
52.9 (1122)
11.1
Missing
8
30
Shade status
<0.001
Part shade
20.9 (70)
21.1 (452)
13.4
Unshaded
67.8 (227)
59.2 (1265)
15.2
Shade
11.3 (38)
19.7 (422)
8.3
Missing
0
5
Sunscreen use
0.023
Yes
47.6 (156)
40.9 (856)
15.4
No
52.4 (172)
59.1 (1238)
12.2
Missing
7
58
Attitudes towards tanning
13.9 (5.3)
15.7 (5.9)
<0.001
Missing
1
2
SunSmart knowledge
2.4 (1.5)
2.2 (1.5)
0.017
Duration outdoors
163.1 (94.4)
134.3 (87.3)
<0.001
Body coverage
59.9 (21.9)
62.9 (21.6)
0.019
Note. Percentages (may not be total 100% due to rounding) except for mean (SD). Chi-square test for independence. -test for independent samples. Row percentages were calculated, representing the percentage of those unintentionally sunburned within each category of the measures.
