Tailored visuals, implementation interventions, and sun safe behavior: A longitudinal message experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

One way to communicate skin cancer risk is through ultraviolet (UV) photographs, which can depict the target person (tailored visual) or someone else (stock visual). There is a need for more longitudinal research examining the relative impact of tailored UV photographs compared with other message interventions that could increase sun safe behaviors.

Method

Students 14-18 years of age (N = 654) at eleven high schools in Utah were recruited to participate in a longitudinal experiment (assessments: pretest, posttest, 1 month follow-up) comparing the relative persuasive impact of receiving either (a) stock and tailored UV photographs or (b) stock UV photographs and an implementation intervention on outdoor tanning behavior. Participants completed measures of fea

SUBMITTER: Jensen JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10712290 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature