How Useful is the Advice: "Fill up a Handful of Sunscreen and Spread it All Over Your Body"

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Quantity of Sunscreen; Sun Safety Campaigns; Sunscreen Use; Sun Protection Factor

• Registration Number: NCT03627260
• Lead Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital

Brief Summary

The advice: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body" is used in several sun safety campaigns. The hope is that users in swimwear following the advice will apply a sunscreen quantity of 2 mg/cm\^2 to all accessible skin. The present study is the first to investigate how this advice works in practice.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2017-07-29
• Study Completion: 2017-07-29
• Study First Submitted: 2018-03-07
• Status Verified: 2018-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-08-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-08-10
• Study First Posted: 2018-08-13
• Last Update Posted: 2018-08-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 31

Inclusion Criteria

• European descent

Exclusion Criteria

• Skin disease
• allergy to the content in sunscreen
• Pregnancy
• Breastfeeding

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The overall quantities of sunscreen applied were calculated from the weighed amount of sunscreen used divided by the skin area accessible for sunscreen application.	Outcome measure will be assessed within half an hour after sunscreen application. There will be no further follow up.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Bispebjerg Hospital; 🇩🇰 Copenhagen NV, DK, Denmark