Sun protection practices in New Zealand secondary schools: a 2014 baseline study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Guided by the established primary school SunSmart programme, a survey of secondary schools' sun protection policies, planning, behavioural expectations, curriculum content and environment was undertaken in order to establish a baseline to inform advocacy and secondary level programme development.

Methods

All 448 principals of state or state integrated public secondary schools identified from the Ministry of Education database were mailed a hard copy questionnaire. School sun protection practices were assessed and a summative, non-weighted, 11-item Total Sun Protection Score (TSPS) was created. Associations between TSPS and socio-demographic factors, as well as school sun protection policy, were investigated using unadjusted and multiple linear regressions.

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SUBMITTER: Reeder AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4962859 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature