A Randomized Control Trial of Sun Protection Interventions for Operating Engineers
- Conditions
- Skin Cancer Prevention
- Registration Number
- NCT01804595
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Brief Summary
This is a randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of 4 sun protection interventions--education only; education and mailed sunscreen; education and text message reminders; and education, mailed sunscreen, and text message reminders--among Michigan Operating Engineers. Pre- and post-intervention surveys will be collected to determine changes in sunscreen use and sun burning, the primary outcome variables. The investigators hypothesize that all interventions will increase sunscreen use and reduce burning and that the education-only intervention will have the least effect of the 4 interventions while the education, mailed sunscreen, and text messaging arm will have the greatest effect.
- Detailed Description
The education intervention will be provided during regularly scheduled safety training sessions, and the text messages and mailed sun screen (SPF30)interventions will be offered during the summer when UV rays are at their highest. Inclusion criteria are Operating Engineers who:1)are greater than 18 years of age; 2) are interested in enrolling in the sun protection study; 3) own a cell-phone that accepts text messages; and 4) are willing to share their phone number with the study team. Based on power analysis, 256 subjects are needed to have 80% power to detect medium sized effects on primary outcomes. Accounting for a 20% attrition rate, 320 subjects will be recruited. The analyses will include: a) paired t-tests to determine changes over time (from pre-intervention to post-intervention) in outcome variables (sunscreen use and burning) separately in the 4 intervention groups, b) Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (RM-ANOVA) to compare the changes in outcomes across the 4 groups, and c) t-tests on change scores as follow-ups to the RM-ANOVA to determine exactly which groups differ from each other. Sub-analyses will explore if particular subgroups of Operating Engineers (e.g., demographic, heath behavior, and job type subgroups) differ in sunscreen use and sun burning pre-and post-intervention.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 357
- greater than 18 years of age
- interested in enrolling in the sun protection study
- owning a cell-phone that accepts text messages
- willing to share their phone number with the study team
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Sunscreen use Post-intervention Subjects will be texted or phoned this question monthly during the intervention period and will again receive this question on the longer follow up survey up to 5 months after the interventions end. In the past summer, on the days when you were outside in the sunlight, how often did you use sun block (never, some of the time, about half the time, most of the time, always)?
Sun Burning Post-intervention Subjects will be texted or phoned this question monthly during the intervention period and will again receive this question on the longer follow up survey up to 5 months after the interventions end. On average, how many times did you get a sunburn this past summer(0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or more times)?
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Michigan School of Nursing
🇺🇸Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
University of Michigan School of Nursing🇺🇸Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States