Deliberate Ultraviolet Light Exposure to Get a Tan by Young Adult Sexual Minority Males

Completed

• Conditions: Sun Sensitivity
• Interventions: Other: no intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04404907
• Lead Sponsor: Northwestern University

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to: a) identify enablers and barriers to deliberate ultraviolet light exposure by young sexual minority men (SMM), and b) quantify the extent of their deliberate ultraviolet light exposure.

Detailed Description

Aim 1: To develop survey items to assess tanning attitudes and behaviors Nine survey items used by the PI in previous deliberate tanning research were adapted with the expert consensus of members of Northwestern's Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Discussions with the PI, research personnel and members of the institute developed the hypothesis that in addition to the previously reported appearance motivations young SMM may be engaging in tanning (indoors or outdoors) as a social activity. A tenth survey item was developed to assess deliberate tanning as a social activity.

Aim 2: Analyze the tanning attitudes and behavior data acquired in an online survey of young adult sexual minority males, who regularly participate in the RADAR study.

RADAR is a longitudinal study with cohorts from the greater Chicago region recruited between 2008 and 2015. The 10 survey items about tanning attitudes and behaviors were added to the online survey that examines SMMs' behavior in the prior 6 months. This is a secondary analysis of registry data acquired by the RADAR study.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-07-15
• Study First Submitted: 2020-05-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-22
• Study First Posted: 2020-05-28
• Primary Completion: 2020-09-05
• Study Completion: 2020-09-05
• Results First Submitted: 2020-10-25
• Results First Submitted QC: 2020-11-16
• Status Verified: 2020-12
• Results First Posted: 2020-12-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-12-10
• Last Update Posted: 2021-01-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 537

Inclusion Criteria

• Young adult SMM (age 18-39)
• Able to read English
• Have internet access
• Willing to complete the online survey

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Exclusion Criteria

• None

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Males who ever deliberately tan	no intervention	Males responded to an anonymous online survey that they had ever deliberately tan
Males who never deliberately tan	no intervention	Males responded to an anonymous online survey that they never deliberately tan

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Outdoor Tanning Motives	14 days	The 95 participants who self-reported deliberate tanning responded to 7 online survey items reported in the analysis population description.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Dermatology; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States