Improved sun protection behaviour in children after two years of the Kidskin intervention

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate a school-based intervention in terms of reducing children's sun exposure and improving their use of sun protection measures. Methods: 'Kidskin' is a five-year, school-based intervention study in Perth, Western Australia, of a cohort of children who were five or six years old in 1995. The study involves three groups: Control, 'moderate' and 'high' intervention. Children in the control schools received the standard health curriculum; those in the intervention schools received a multicomponent intervention, including a specially designed curriculum. Children in the high intervention group also received program materials over the summer holidays and were offered sun-protec..