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Rationale and study protocol to evaluate the SunSmart policy intervention: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a primary school-based health promotion program

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, January 2015
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Title
Rationale and study protocol to evaluate the SunSmart policy intervention: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a primary school-based health promotion program
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BMC Public Health, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1371-8
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Dean A Dudley, Matthew J Winslade, Bradley J Wright, Wayne G Cotton, Jackie L McIver, Kirsten S Jackson

Abstract

BackgroundPrevious evaluations of the SunSmart Program have supported the link between a written sun protection policy and improved sun protection behaviours in New South Wales (NSW) primary schools. However these evaluations have relied on self-reported data and research suggests that direct observations are required to better represent schools¿ usual sun protective practices.Methods/designData will be collected in the summer months of 2014, 2015, and 2016 as part of an 18-month cluster-controlled trial in NSW primary schools (n¿=¿20). Researchers will conduct three direct observations to record students¿ hat use and teachers¿ use of sun protective measures during recess and lunch periods in each school. Researchers will also record the volume of sunscreen that the Year 6 classes in each school utilise over the term. At the conclusion of baseline data collection, five schools will be randomised into an intervention group that will work with researchers to develop a policy-driven intervention to improve sun safety behaviour in NSW primary schools.DiscussionAn initial review of relevant Australian and New Zealand literature suggests that provision of policy support is likely to improve school sun protection practices; however there is no suggested model for this support. This will be the first objective analysis of sun safe behaviours leading to a policy-driven intervention conducted in Australian primary schools since the 1990s, and will inform the future direction of sun safety in our schools.Trial registrationAustralian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register ACTRN12614000926639 Registered 28th August 2014.

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Unknown 90 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 11%
Student > Bachelor 10 11%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 23 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 13%
Psychology 10 11%
Social Sciences 7 8%
Sports and Recreations 4 4%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 28 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2015.
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