Summertime scorcher: assessing and promoting sunscreen protection in an amusement park setting.

Background/purpose: Intense, intermittent exposure, the kind of exposure associated with attending an amusement park for example, is correlated with the development of basal cell carcinoma and melanoma. The goals of this study were to assess the use of the station by visitors and to identify opportunities to increase the utilization of the sunscreen station.

Methods: The study was a descriptive observational study of attendees at an amusement park in Pennsylvania.